禮樂

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Chinese

gift; propriety; rite
music; happy; laugh
music; happy; laugh; cheerful
 
trad. (禮樂)
simp. (礼乐)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 2/3
Initial () (37) (31)
Final () (39) (10)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV II
Fanqie
Baxter lejX ngaewk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/leiX/ /ŋˠʌk̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/leiX/ /ŋᵚɔk̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/lɛiX/ /ŋɔk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɛjX/ /ŋaɨwk̚/
Li
Rong
/leiX/ /ŋɔk̚/
Wang
Li
/lieiX/ /ŋɔk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lieiX/ /ŋɔk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yuè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lai5 ngok6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 4/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yuè
Middle
Chinese
‹ lejX › ‹ ngæwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*ˁijʔ/ /*ˁrawk/
English propriety, ceremony music

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 # 1/1 3/3
No. 7839 7683
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*riːʔ/ /*ŋraːwɢ/

Noun

禮樂

  1. (historical, Confucianism) rites and music
    禮樂時代礼乐时代  ―  lǐyuè shídài  ―  age of rites and music (i.e. the Zhou dynasty, especially Western Zhou)

Derived terms