周章

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Chinese

encircle; circuit; complete
encircle; circuit; complete; lap; week; cycle; all; every; attentive; thoughtful
 
chapter; seal; section
trad. (周章)
simp. #(周章)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (23) (23)
Final () (136) (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter tsyuw tsyang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨu/ /t͡ɕɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕiu/ /t͡ɕiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕiəu/ /t͡ɕiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cuw/ /cɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiu/ /t͡ɕiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭəu/ /t͡ɕĭaŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/ /t͡ɕi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhōu zhāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zau1 zoeng1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhōu zhōu zhāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyuw › ‹ tsyuw › ‹ tsyang ›
Old
Chinese
/*tiw/ /*tiw/ /*taŋ/
English Zhōu (dynasty and place) cycle; all around brilliant; distinctive mark; to display

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 17531 16817
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tjɯw/ /*kjaŋ/
Notes

Adjective

周章

  1. (literary) flustered; frightened

Derived terms

Noun

周章

  1. (literary) setback; complication; twists and turns; trouble; effort

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