烝民

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Chinese

advance; many; steam the people; nationality; citizen
simp. and trad.
(烝民)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Initial () (23) (23) (4)
Final () (133) (133) (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () III III III
Fanqie
Baxter tsying tsyingH mjin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕɨŋ/ /t͡ɕɨŋH/ /miɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕɨŋ/ /t͡ɕɨŋH/ /min/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕieŋ/ /t͡ɕieŋH/ /mjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ciŋ/ /ciŋH/ /min/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕiəŋ/ /t͡ɕiəŋH/ /miĕn/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕĭəŋ/ /t͡ɕĭəŋH/ /mĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕi̯əŋ/ /t͡ɕi̯əŋH/ /mi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhēng zhèng mín
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zing1 zing3 man4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhēng mín
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsying › ‹ mjin ›
Old
Chinese
/*təŋ/ /*mi/
English to rise (of steam); steam (v.t.) people

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 # 1/2 2/2 1/1
No. 1407 1412 9130
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kljɯŋ/ /*kljɯŋs/ /*min/

Noun

烝民

  1. (literary) the common people; the populace; the masses; the multitudes

Synonyms