星漢

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Chinese

star; satellite; small amount Chinese; name of a dynasty; man
trad. (星漢)
simp. (星汉)

Etymology

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Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (16) (32)
Final () (125) (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV I
Fanqie
Baxter seng xanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/seŋ/ /hɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/seŋ/ /hɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɛŋ/ /xɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɛjŋ/ /hanH/
Li
Rong
/seŋ/ /xɑnH/
Wang
Li
/sieŋ/ /xɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sieŋ/ /xɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xīng hàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sing1 hon3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xīng hàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ seng › ‹ xanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-tsʰˁeŋ/ /*n̥ˁar-s/ (W dialect: *n̥- > MC x-, *-r > *-n)
English star (river name)

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. 11371 4905
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sleːŋ/ /*hnaːns/
Notes

Proper noun

星漢

  1. (literary) Milky Way

Synonyms