晏子

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Chinese

surname
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
 
trad. (晏子)
simp. #(晏子)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Initial () (34) (13)
Final () (69) (19)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II III
Fanqie
Baxter 'aenH tsiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔˠanH/ /t͡sɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔᵚanH/ /t͡sɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɐnH/ /t͡sieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔaɨnH/ /t͡sɨX/
Li
Rong
/ʔanH/ /t͡siəX/
Wang
Li
/anH/ /t͡sĭəX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʔanH/ /t͡siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
aan3 zi2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔænH › ‹ tsiX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔˁ<r>a-s/ /*tsəʔ/
English peace, rest child; gentleman, master

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 # 2/2 1/1
No. 20 17857
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qraːns/ /*ʔslɯʔ/

Proper noun

晏子

  1. (honorific) Yan Ying (fl. 6th century BCE)

Derived terms