巫山

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Chinese

witch; Malay mountain; hill
simp. and trad.
(巫山)
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Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (4) (21)
Final () (24) (73)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III II
Fanqie
Baxter mju srean
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mɨo/ /ʃˠɛn/
Pan
Wuyun
/mio/ /ʃᵚæn/
Shao
Rongfen
/mio/ /ʃæn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/muə̆/ /ʂəɨn/
Li
Rong
/mio/ /ʃɛn/
Wang
Li
/mĭu/ /ʃæn/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/mi̯u/ /ʂăn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mou4 saan1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shān
Middle
Chinese
‹ mju › ‹ srɛn ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.m(r)/ /*s-ŋrar/
English magician mountain, hill

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. 13062 11052
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ma/ /*sreːn/

Proper noun

巫山

  1. () Wushan (a county of Chongqing, China)
  2. () Wushan (a town in Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China)
  3. () Wushan (a village in Wushan town, Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: Wushan, Wu-shan