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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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婦
|
人
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
fù
|
rén
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ bjuwX ›
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‹ nyin ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*mə.bəʔ/ (or *tsə.-? see Min)
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/*ni/
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| English
|
woman, wife
|
(other) person
|
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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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婦
|
人
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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17550
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10800
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Phonetic
component
|
帚
|
人
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Rime
group
|
之
|
眞
|
Rime
subdivision
|
1
|
1
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Corresponding
MC rime
|
婦
|
仁
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Old
Chinese
|
/*bɯʔ/
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/*njin/
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Noun
婦人
- (married) woman (Classifier: 位; 個／个)
- (archaic) wife of a yeoman (士 (shì))
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
婦人 • (fujin)
- (another person's) wife
- madam; ma'am
References
- 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
Korean
Noun
婦人 • (bu'in) (hangeul 부인)
- hanja form? of 부인 (“madam; ma'am”)