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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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巖
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
yán
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ ngæm ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*ˁrm/ (< uvular?)
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| English
|
rocky, lofty
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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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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巉
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巖
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| Reading #
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1/2
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1/1
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| No.
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1233
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3684
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Phonetic
component
|
毚
|
敢
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Rime
group
|
談
|
談
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Rime
subdivision
|
1
|
1
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Corresponding
MC rime
|
巉
|
巖
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Old
Chinese
|
/*zraːm/
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/*ŋraːm/
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Noun
巉巖
- (literary) precipitous rock
Adjective
巉巖
- (literary) precipitous; steep
- (literary, of poetry) powerful and distinctive in style