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Chinese
Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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浦
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姑
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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pǔ
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gū
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Middle Chinese
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‹ phuX ›
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‹ ku ›
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Old Chinese
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/*pʰˁaʔ/
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/*kˁa/
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English
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river bank
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father"s sister
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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.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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浦
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姑
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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No.
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3429
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4212
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Phonetic component
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甫
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古
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Rime group
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魚
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魚
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Rime subdivision
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0
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0
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Corresponding MC rime
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普
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孤
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Old Chinese
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/*pʰaːʔ/
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/*kaː/
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Proper noun
浦姑
- (historical) The people, state, and settlement of Pugu, counted among the Eastern Barbarians (東夷) and said to have been destroyed shortly after the rise of the Zhou, with their lands incorporated into the march of Qi (齊).
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