小雅

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Chinese

small; tiny; few
small; tiny; few; young
 
elegant
trad. (小雅)
simp. #(小雅)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (16) (31)
Final () (91) (98)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III II
Fanqie
Baxter sjewX ngaeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siᴇuX/ /ŋˠaX/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɛuX/ /ŋᵚaX/
Shao
Rongfen
/sjæuX/ /ŋaX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/siawX/ /ŋaɨX/
Li
Rong
/siɛuX/ /ŋaX/
Wang
Li
/sĭɛuX/ /ŋaX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/si̯ɛuX/ /ŋaX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiǎo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
siu2 ngaa5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjewX › ‹ ngæX › ‹ ngæX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ewʔ/ /*N-ɢˁraʔ/ /*ˁraʔ/
English small proper, refined kind of musical instrument

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. 13705 14182
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*smewʔ/ /*ŋraːʔ/
Notes

Proper noun

小雅

  1. Lesser Court Hymns (a section of the Classic of Poetry)