柔遠

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Chinese

soft far; distant; remote
trad. (柔遠)
simp. (柔远)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial () (38) (35)
Final () (136) (66)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter nyuw hjwonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵɨu/ /ɦʉɐnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵiu/ /ɦʷiɐnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑiəu/ /ɣiuɐnX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵuw/ /ɦuanX/
Li
Rong
/ȵiu/ /ɣiuɐnX/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭəu/ /ɣĭwɐnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ə̯u/ /i̯wɐnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
róu yuǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jau4 jyun5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
róu yuǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyuw › ‹ hjwonX ›
Old
Chinese
/*nu/ /*C.ɢʷanʔ/
English soft far

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 1/2
No. 8825 16226
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mlju/ /*ɢʷanʔ/

Verb

柔遠

  1. (Classical) to pacify distant peoples or nations

Derived terms