地動

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Chinese

 
earth; ground; field
earth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly
 
to move; to change; to use
to move; to change; to use; to act
trad. (地動)
simp. (地动)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (7) (7)
Final () (15) (1)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter dijH duwngX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/diɪH/ /duŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/diH/ /duŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/djɪH/ /duŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/diH/ /dəwŋX/
Li
Rong
/diH/ /duŋX/
Wang
Li
/diH/ /duŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/dʱiH/ /dʱuŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dòng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
dei6 dung6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dòng
Middle
Chinese
‹ dijH › ‹ duwngX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁej-s/ /*tˁoŋʔ/
English earth, ground move

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. 14808 17449
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*l'els/ /*doːŋʔ/

Verb

地動

  1. (of the Earth/earth) to move; to quake

Derived terms

Noun

地動

  1. (literary or dialectal) earthquake

Synonyms