寒暖

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Chinese

cold; poor; to tremble warm; toasty
simp. and trad.
(寒暖)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (33) (8)
Final () (61) (62)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () I I
Fanqie
Baxter han nwanX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦɑn/ /nuɑnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦɑn/ /nʷɑnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣɑn/ /nuɑnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦan/ /nwanX/
Li
Rong
/ɣɑn/ /nuɑnX/
Wang
Li
/ɣɑn/ /nuɑnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɣɑn/ /nuɑnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hán nuǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hon4 nyun5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hán
Middle
Chinese
‹ han ›
Old
Chinese
/*Cə.ˁa/
English cold

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 16157
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡaːn/ /*noːnʔ/
Notes

Noun

寒暖

  1. coldness and warmness (especially of weather); changes in temperature
  2. (figurative) daily life; living conditions

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