寒暑

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Chinese

cold; poor; to tremble heat; hot weather; summer heat
simp. and trad.
(寒暑)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (33) (26)
Final () (61) (22)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter han syoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦɑn/ /ɕɨʌX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦɑn/ /ɕiɔX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɑn/ /ɕiɔX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦan/ /ɕɨə̆X/
Li
Rong
/ɣɑn/ /ɕiɔX/
Wang
Li
/ɣɑn/ /ɕĭoX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɣɑn/ /ɕi̯woX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hán shǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hon4 syu2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hán shǔ
Middle
Chinese
‹ han › ‹ syoX ›
Old
Chinese
/*Cə.ˁa/ /*s-tʰaʔ/
English cold heat

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. 4870 17014
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡaːn/ /*hjaʔ/

Noun

寒暑

  1. cold and heat
  2. winter and summer
  3. (figurative) a year's time; time

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