市井

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Chinese

market; city warn; well
simp. and trad.
(市井)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (25) (13)
Final () (19) (121)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter dzyiX tsjengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑɨX/ /t͡siᴇŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑɨX/ /t͡siɛŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑieX/ /t͡siæŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑɨX/ /t͡siajŋX/
Li
Rong
/ʑiəX/ /t͡siɛŋX/
Wang
Li
/ʑĭəX/ /t͡sĭɛŋX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʑiX/ /t͡si̯ɛŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shì jǐng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
si6 zing2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shì jǐng
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyiX › ‹ tsjengX ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.əʔ/ /*C.tseŋʔ/
English market (n.) well (n.)

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. 11611 6852
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*djɯʔ/ /*skeŋʔ/
Notes

Noun

市井

  1. (literary) marketplace; town
  2. (literary) merchant
  3. vulgar people; unrefined people

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 2
せい
Grade: 4
kan'on

Pronunciation

Noun

()(せい) (shisei

  1. the street; the town
    市井(しせい)(ひと )()きました。
    Shisei no hito ni kikimashita.
    I asked people on the streets.