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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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無
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業
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| Reading #
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1/3
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1/3
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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wú
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yè
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ mju ›
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‹ ngjæp ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*ma/
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/*(r)p/
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| English
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not have
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work (n.)
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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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無
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業
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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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13117
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14819
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Phonetic
component
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無
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業
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Rime
group
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魚
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盍
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Rime
subdivision
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0
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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無
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業
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Old
Chinese
|
/*ma/
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/*ŋab/
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Verb
無業
- to be out of work; to be unemployed
- 無業遊民／无业游民 ― wúyè yóumín ― vagrant
- to have no property; to be dispossessed
全然無業，即既無土地，又無資金，完全失去生活依據，不得不出外當兵，或出去做工，或打流當乞丐的，都是「赤貧」，占百分之二十。 [MSC, trad.]
全然无业，即既无土地，又无资金，完全失去生活依据，不得不出外当兵，或出去做工，或打流当乞丐的，都是「赤贫」，占百分之二十。 [MSC, simp.]- From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition
- Quánrán wúyè, jí jì wú tǔdì, yòu wú zījīn, wánquán shīqù shēnghuó yījù, bùdébù chūwài dāngbīng, huò chūqù zuògōng, huò dǎliú dāng qǐgài de, dōu shì “chìpín”, zhàn bǎifēn zhī èrshí.
- The utterly destitute, comprising 20 per cent, are the completely dispossessed, that is, people who have neither land nor money, are without any means of livelihood, and are forced to leave home and become mercenaries or hired labourers or wandering beggars.
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