安危

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Chinese

content; calm; still
content; calm; still; quiet; to pacify; peace; how
 
danger; to endanger
trad. (安危)
simp. #(安危)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (34) (31)
Final () (61) (14)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter 'an ngjwe
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɑn/ /ŋˠiuᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɑn/ /ŋʷᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɑn/ /ŋiuɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔan/ /ŋjwiə̆/
Li
Rong
/ʔɑn/ /ŋjue/
Wang
Li
/ɑn/ /ŋǐwe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔɑn/ /ŋwie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ān wéi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
on1 ngai4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
ān ān ān wēi
Middle
Chinese
‹ 'an › ‹ 'an › ‹ 'an › ‹ ngjwe ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁa/ /*ˁa/ /*ˁa/ /*(r)j/
English peace(ful) how 安息 Ānxī (Iranian country in the western regions, W. Hàn; from Aršaka = Arsaces, founder of the Arsacid dynasty) in danger

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. 11 12781
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qaːn/ /*ŋrol/

Noun

安危

  1. safety and danger

Japanese

Kanji in this term
あん
Grade: 3

Grade: 6
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese compound 安危 (ʔan ngjwe, literally peace + danger).

Pronunciation

Noun

(あん)() (anki

  1. safety and danger

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN