磨鏡

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Chinese

grindstone; to sharpen; to delay
grindstone; to sharpen; to delay; hardship; to grind; to rub
 
mirror; lens
trad. (磨鏡)
simp. (磨镜)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (4) (28)
Final () (95) (111)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter ma kjaengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/muɑ/ /kˠiæŋH/
Pan
Wuyun
/muɑ/ /kᵚiaŋH/
Shao
Rongfen
/muɑ/ /kiaŋH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mwa/ /kiajŋH/
Li
Rong
/muɑ/ /kiɐŋH/
Wang
Li
/muɑ/ /kĭɐŋH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/muɑ/ /ki̯ɐŋH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jìng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mo4 ging3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jìng
Middle
Chinese
‹ ma › ‹ kjængH ›
Old
Chinese
/*mˁaj/ /*C.qraŋʔ-s/
English rub, grind mirror

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 1/1
No. 8706 6870
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*maːl/ /*kraŋs/

Verb

磨鏡

  1. to grind mirrors
  2. (now chiefly Xiamen Hokkien, euphemistic) to have lesbian sexual relations