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Chinese
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enlighten; lattice window
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a household; door; family
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| trad. (牖戶)
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牖
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戶
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| simp. (牖户)
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牖
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户
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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牖
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戶
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戶
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/2
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2/2
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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yǒu
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hù
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hù
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ yuwX ›
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‹ huX ›
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‹ huX ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*uʔ/
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/*m-qˁaʔ/
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/*m-qˁaʔ/
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| English
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window
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to stop, to check
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door
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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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牖
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戶
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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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15590
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5296
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Phonetic
component
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牖
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戸
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Rime
group
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幽
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魚
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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酉
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戸
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Old
Chinese
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/*luʔ/
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/*ɡʷaːʔ/
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Noun
牖戶
- (literary) window and door
迨天之未陰雨、徹彼桑土、綢繆牖戶。
迨天之未阴雨、彻彼桑土、绸缪牖户。 - From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Dài tiān zhī wèi yīnyǔ, chè bǐ sāngdù, chóumóu yǒuhù.
- Before the sky was dark with rain,
I gathered the roots of the mulberry tree,
And bound round and round my window and door.