安石

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Chinese

content; calm; still
content; calm; still; quiet; to pacify; peace; how
 
rock; stone; 10 pecks
trad. (安石)
simp. #(安石)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (34) (25)
Final () (61) (123)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter 'an dzyek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɑn/ /d͡ʑiᴇk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɑn/ /d͡ʑiɛk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɑn/ /d͡ʑiæk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔan/ /d͡ʑiajk̚/
Li
Rong
/ʔɑn/ /ʑiɛk̚/
Wang
Li
/ɑn/ /ʑĭɛk̚/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʔɑn/ /ʑi̯ɛk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ān shí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
on1 sik6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/3 2/3 3/3 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
ān ān ān shí
Middle
Chinese
‹ 'an › ‹ 'an › ‹ 'an › ‹ dzyek ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁa/ /*ˁa/ /*ˁa/ /*dAk/
English peace(ful) how 安息 Ānxī (Iranian country in the western regions, W. Hàn; from Aršaka = Arsaces, founder of the Arsacid dynasty) stone

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 11470
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qaːn/ /*djaɡ/

Proper noun

安石

  1. (historical) Alternative name for 安息 (Ānxī, “Arsacid Empire; Parthian Empire”).

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