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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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泉
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水
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
quán
|
shuǐ
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ dzjwen ›
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‹ sywijX ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*s-N-ɢʷar/ (MC I!)
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/*s.turʔ/ (E dialect: *-r > *-j)
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| English
|
spring, source
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water; river
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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)
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| Character
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泉
|
水
|
| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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| No.
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10728
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11948
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Phonetic
component
|
泉
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水
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Rime
group
|
元
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脂
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Rime
subdivision
|
2
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2
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Corresponding
MC rime
|
全
|
水
|
Old
Chinese
|
/*sɡʷen/
|
/*qʰʷljilʔ/
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Noun
泉水
- springwater
Synonyms
- 水泉 (shuǐquán) (literary or Min Nan)
- 泉 (quán) (literary, or in compounds)
Dialectal synonyms of
泉水 (“springwater”)
Derived terms
See also
Japanese
Proper noun
泉水 • (Izumi)
- a surname