端倪

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Chinese

 
end; extremity; item
end; extremity; item; port; to hold sth. level with both hands; to carry; regular
 extremity
simp. and trad.
(端倪) 		端 倪

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 端 倪
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 端 (5) 疑 (31)
Final (韻) 桓 (62) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) I IV
Fanqie 多官切 五稽切
Baxter twan ngej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/tuɑn/ /ŋei/
Pan
Wuyun 		/tʷɑn/ /ŋei/
Shao
Rongfen 		/tuɑn/ /ŋɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/twan/ /ŋɛj/
Li
Rong 		/tuɑn/ /ŋei/
Wang
Li 		/tuɑn/ /ŋiei/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/tuɑn/ /ŋiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		duān yí
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		dyun1 ngai4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 端 倪
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		duān ní
Middle
Chinese 		‹ twan › ‹ ngej ›
Old
Chinese 		/*tˁor/ /*ŋˁe/
English tip (n.) young and weak

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 端 倪
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 2500 2736
Phonetic
component 		耑 兒
Rime
group 		元 支
Rime
subdivision 		3 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		端 倪
Old
Chinese 		/*toːn/ /*ŋeː/

Noun

端倪

  1. sign; inkling; clue
  2. (literary) boundary; limit; bound

Synonyms

  • (sign):
  • (boundary):

Derived terms

Verb

端倪

  1. (literary) to predict (the development of); to forecast

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (端倪):
  • → Japanese: 端倪(たんげい) (tangei)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
端 倪
たん
Grade: S 		げい
Hyōgaiji
kan’on

Pronunciation

Noun

端(たん)倪(げい) • (tangei) 

  1. conjecturing
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