孺子

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Chinese

child
 
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (孺子)
simp. #(孺子)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (38) (13)
Final () (24) (19)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter nyuH tsiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵɨoH/ /t͡sɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵioH/ /t͡sɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑioH/ /t͡sieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵuə̆H/ /t͡sɨX/
Li
Rong
/ȵioH/ /t͡siəX/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭuH/ /t͡sĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯uH/ /t͡siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jyu6 zi2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyuH › ‹ tsiX ›
Old
Chinese
/*no-s/ /*tsəʔ/
English child child; gentleman, master

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. 13983 17857
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njos/ /*ʔslɯʔ/

Noun

孺子

  1. (literary) child
  2. (literary) young person

Synonyms

  • (child):

Derived terms