爾雅

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Chinese

Wikipedia has articles on:
thus; so; like that
thus; so; like that; you; thou
 
 elegant
trad. (爾雅) 爾 雅
simp. (尔雅) 尔 雅

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 爾 雅
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 支 (11) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) III II
Fanqie 兒氏切 五下切
Baxter nyeX ngaeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ȵiᴇX/ /ŋˠaX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ȵiɛX/ /ŋᵚaX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȵʑjɛX/ /ŋaX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ȵiə̆X/ /ŋaɨX/
Li
Rong 		/ȵieX/ /ŋaX/
Wang
Li 		/ȵʑǐeX/ /ŋaX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ȵʑie̯X/ /ŋaX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ěr yǎ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		ji5 ngaa5
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 爾 爾 雅
Reading # 2/3 3/3 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		ěr ěr yǎ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nyeX › ‹ nyeX › ‹ ngæX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*nʔ/ /*nʔ/ /*N-ɢˁraʔ/
English (adv. suffix) you(r) proper, refined

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 爾 雅
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 2817 14182
Phonetic
component 		爾 牙
Rime
group 		歌 魚
Rime
subdivision 		2 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		爾 雅
Old
Chinese 		/*njelʔ/ /*ŋraːʔ/
Notes 說文尒聲，甲金文象檷初文，
取林義光說

Proper noun

爾雅

  1. Erya (the oldest surviving Chinese dictionary or Chinese encyclopedia known)

Adjective

爾雅

  1. (literary) standard; correct
  2. (literary) upright; righteous
  3. (literary) elegant; gentle; refined; cultured

Derived terms

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
爾 雅
じ
Jinmeiyō 		が
Grade: S
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Proper noun

爾(じ)雅(が) • (Jiga) 

  1. Erya (the oldest surviving Chinese dictionary or Chinese encyclopedia known)

Korean

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Hanja in this term
爾雅

Proper noun

爾雅 • (Ia) (hangeul 이아)

  1. hanja form? of 이아 (“Erya”)

Vietnamese

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chữ Hán Nôm in this term
爾雅

Proper noun

爾雅

  1. chữ Hán form of Nhĩ Nhã (“Erya”).
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