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Chinese
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manure; dung
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earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian |
| trad. (糞土)
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糞
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土
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| simp. (粪土)
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粪
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土
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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糞
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土
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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fèn
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tǔ
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ pjunH ›
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‹ thuX ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*pr-s/
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/*tʰˁaʔ/
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| English
|
manure, dirt
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earth
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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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糞
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土
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/2
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| No.
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3197
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12499
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Phonetic
component
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糞
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土
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Rime
group
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文
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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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糞
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土
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Old
Chinese
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/*pɯns/
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/*l̥ʰaːʔ/
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Noun
糞土
- dung and dirt; muck
- (figurative) worthless thing; nothing
- 視錢財如糞土／视钱财如粪土 ― shì qiáncái rú fèntǔ ― to care little about money