端月

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Chinese

end; extremity; item
end; extremity; item; port; to hold sth. level with both hands; to carry; regular
 
moon; month
simp. and trad.
(端月)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (5) (31)
Final () (62) (68)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter twan ngjwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tuɑn/ /ŋʉɐt̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʷɑn/ /ŋʷiɐt̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/tuɑn/ /ŋiuɐt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/twan/ /ŋuat̚/
Li
Rong
/tuɑn/ /ŋiuɐt̚/
Wang
Li
/tuɑn/ /ŋĭwɐt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/tuɑn/ /ŋi̯wɐt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
duān yuè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
dyun1 jyut6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
duān yuè
Middle
Chinese
‹ twan › ‹ ngjwot ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˁor/ /*ʷat/
English tip (n.) moon, month

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 1/1
No. 2500 16319
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*toːn/ /*ŋod/

Noun

端月

  1. (literary) the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar

Synonyms