栗栗

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Chinese

Etymology 1

chestnut chestnut
trad. (栗栗)
simp. #(栗栗)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (37)
Final () (48)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () III
Fanqie
Baxter lit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/liɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/lit̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/ljet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lit̚/
Li
Rong
/liĕt̚/
Wang
Li
/lĭĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/li̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lat6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ lit ›
Old
Chinese
/*i/
English chestnut tree

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
No. 7969
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*riɡ/

Adjective

栗栗

  1. (literary, obsolete) plentiful

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of – see 慄慄 (“fearful; terrified; with dread; shivering; trembling; shuddering”).
(This term is the simplified and variant form of 慄慄).
Notes: