步輦

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Chinese

a step; a pace; walk
a step; a pace; walk; march; stages in a process
 
emperor's carriage
trad. (步輦)
simp. (步辇)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (3) (37)
Final () (23) (77)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter buH ljenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/buoH/ /liᴇnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/buoH/ /liɛnX/
Shao
Rongfen
/boH/ /ljænX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bɔH/ /lianX/
Li
Rong
/boH/ /liɛnX/
Wang
Li
/buH/ /lĭɛnX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/bʱuoH/ /li̯ɛnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
liǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
bou6 lin5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
niǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ buH › ‹ ljenX ›
Old
Chinese
/*mə-bˁa-s/ /*ʔ/
English step cart drawn by men

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. 1051 9484
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*baːs/ /*renʔ/

Noun

步輦

  1. (literary, post-Qin) sedan carriage

Verb

步輦

  1. (literary, post-Qin) to take a sedan carriage
  2. (Southern Min) to go on foot; to walk

Synonyms

  • (go on foot):