屍陀林

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Chinese

corpse phonetic woods; forest
trad. (屍陀林)
simp. (尸陀林)

Etymology

Phono-semantic matching of Sanskrit शीत (śīta) + (lín, “woods”).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1 1/1
Initial () (26) (26) (7) (37)
Final () (15) (15) (94) (139)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open Open
Division () III III I III
Fanqie
Baxter syij syijH da lim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɕiɪ/ /ɕiɪH/ /dɑ/ /liɪm/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɕi/ /ɕiH/ /dɑ/ /lim/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɕjɪ/ /ɕjɪH/ /dɑ/ /ljem/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɕi/ /ɕiH/ /da/ /lim/
Li
Rong
/ɕi/ /ɕiH/ /dɑ/ /liəm/
Wang
Li
/ɕi/ /ɕiH/ /dɑ/ /lĭĕm/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ɕi/ /ɕiH/ /dʱɑ/ /li̯əm/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shī shì tuó lín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
si1 si3 to4 lam4

Noun

屍陀林

  1. (Buddhism) shmashana

Derived terms