尸祿素餐

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Chinese

corpse good fortune; official salary to eat without working; to maintain a vegetarian diet
trad. (尸祿素餐) 祿 素餐
simp. (尸禄素餐) 素餐
alternative forms 尸祿素食

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 祿
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1
Initial () (26) (37) (16) (14)
Final () (15) (3) (23) (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open Open
Division () III I I I
Fanqie
Baxter syij luwk suH tshan
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕiɪ/ /luk̚/ /suoH/ /t͡sʰɑn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕi/ /luk̚/ /suoH/ /t͡sʰɑn/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕjɪ/ /luk̚/ /soH/ /t͡sʰɑn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕi/ /ləwk̚/ /sɔH/ /t͡sʰan/
Li
Rong
/ɕi/ /luk̚/ /soH/ /t͡sʰɑn/
Wang
Li
/ɕi/ /luk̚/ /suH/ /t͡sʰɑn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɕi/ /luk̚/ /suoH/ /t͡sʰɑn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shī cān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
si1 luk6 sou3 caan1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 祿
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shī
Middle
Chinese
‹ syij › ‹ luwk › ‹ suH ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥̥j/ /*ˁok/ /*ˁak-s/
English corpse blessing white silk

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 祿
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1
No. 11396 8541 12099 1117
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0 0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hli/ /*roːɡ/ /*saːs/ /*sʰaːn/
Notes

Idiom

尸祿素餐

  1. (derogatory or humble) Synonym of 尸位素餐 (shīwèisùcān)

Synonyms