城池

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Chinese

city walls; city; town moat
trad. (城池) 城 池
simp. #(城池) 城 池

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 城 池
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial (聲) 常 (25) 澄 (11)
Final (韻) 清 (121) 支 (13)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 是征切 直離切
Baxter dzyeng drje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/d͡ʑiᴇŋ/ /ɖˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/d͡ʑiɛŋ/ /ɖᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/d͡ʑiæŋ/ /ȡiɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/d͡ʑiajŋ/ /ɖjiə̆/
Li
Rong 		/ʑiɛŋ/ /ȡje/
Wang
Li 		/ʑĭɛŋ/ /ȡǐe/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ʑi̯ɛŋ/ /ȡʱie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		chéng chí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sing4 ci4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 城 池
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		chéng chí
Middle
Chinese 		‹ dzyeng › ‹ drje ›
Old
Chinese 		/*eŋ/ /*Cə.lraj/
English city wall pool (n.)

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 城 池
Reading # 1/1 2/2
No. 1418 14779
Phonetic
component 		成 也
Rime
group 		耕 歌
Rime
subdivision 		0 1
Corresponding
MC rime 		成 馳
Old
Chinese 		/*djeŋ/ /*l'al/

Noun

城池

  1. (archaic) walled city with a moat
  2. (archaic) city (in general)

Synonyms

  • (city):
Dialectal synonyms of 城市 (“city”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 城池
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 城市
Northeastern Mandarin Taiwan 城市
Harbin 城市
Singapore 城市
Jilu Mandarin Xianxian (Xiaoying) 城市
Jinan 城市
Jiaoliao Mandarin Yantai (Muping) 城市
Southwestern Mandarin Guiyang 城市
Guilin 城市
Pingle 城市
Liuzhou 城市
Luzhai 城市
Cantonese Hong Kong 城市
Guiping (Jintian) 城市
Hakka Nantou (Guoxing; Lufeng) 城市
Bobai (Shahe) 城市
Bobai (Lingping) 城市
Singkawang 埠頭
Pontianak (Meixian) 埠頭, 城市
Huizhou Jixi 城市
Jin Datong 城市
Datong (Xicetian, Yunzhou) 城市
Xinzhou 城市
Changzhi 城市
Eastern Min Gutian 城市
Southern Min Shantou 城市
Haikou 城市
Zhongshan Min Zhongshan (Longdu, Shaxi) 城市
Zhongshan (Sanxiang) 城
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 城市
Northern Pinghua Lingchuan (Shuangzhou) 城市
Wu Shanghai 城市
Danyang 城市
Jinhua 城市
Yiwu 城, 城市

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (城池):
  • → Vietnamese: thành trì (城池)

Proper noun

城池

  1. (～村) Chengchi (a village in Zhonglu, Lichuan, Enshi prefecture, Hubei, China)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
城池

Noun

城池

  1. chữ Hán form of thành trì (“stronghold”)
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