東胡

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Chinese

east barbarian
trad. (東胡)
simp. (东胡)
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Etymology

Likely unrelated to Russian тунгус (tungus) and English Tungus. According to Pulleybank (1983), the similarity in the pronunciation of 東胡东胡 (Dōnghú) and Tungus is coincidental, as the Donghu people were proto-Mongols whose language was not Tungusic.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (5) (33)
Final () (1) (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Baxter tuwng hu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tuŋ/ /ɦuo/
Pan
Wuyun
/tuŋ/ /ɦuo/
Shao
Rongfen
/tuŋ/ /ɣo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/təwŋ/ /ɦɔ/
Li
Rong
/tuŋ/ /ɣo/
Wang
Li
/tuŋ/ /ɣu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tuŋ/ /ɣuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
dōng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
dung1 wu4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
dōng
Middle
Chinese
‹ tuwng › ‹ hu ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˁoŋ/ (< *tˁoŋʔ ?) /*ˁa/
English east foreigners in the north

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. 2435 4255
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*toːŋ/ /*ɡaː/
Notes

Proper noun

東胡

  1. Donghu (a historical tribal confederation of nomadic people that inhabited present-day northern Hebei, southeastern Inner Mongolia and western Northeast China)