彭城

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Chinese

surname city walls; city; town
simp. and trad.
(彭城) 		彭 城

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 彭 城
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 常 (25)
Final (韻) 庚 (109) 清 (121)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II III
Fanqie 薄庚切 是征切
Baxter baeng dzyeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/bˠæŋ/ /d͡ʑiᴇŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/bᵚaŋ/ /d͡ʑiɛŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/baŋ/ /d͡ʑiæŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/baɨjŋ/ /d͡ʑiajŋ/
Li
Rong 		/bɐŋ/ /ʑiɛŋ/
Wang
Li 		/bɐŋ/ /ʑĭɛŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/bʱɐŋ/ /ʑi̯ɛŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		péng chéng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		pang4 sing4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 彭 城
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		péng chéng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ bæng › ‹ dzyeng ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.ˁraŋ/ /*eŋ/
English (place name) city wall

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 彭 城
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 9681 1418
Phonetic
component 		彭 成
Rime
group 		陽 耕
Rime
subdivision 		0 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		彭 成
Old
Chinese 		/*braːŋ/ /*djeŋ/

Proper noun

彭城

  1. (archaic) Pengcheng (present day Xuzhou)

References

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