美酒

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Chinese

beautiful; beauty; America alcoholic drink
trad. (美酒)
simp. #(美酒)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (4) (13)
Final () (17) (136)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter mijX tsjuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiɪX/ /t͡sɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚiX/ /t͡siuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/miɪX/ /t͡siəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/mjiX/ /t͡suwX/
Li
Rong
/mjiX/ /t͡siuX/
Wang
Li
/miX/ /t͡sĭəuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/miX/ /t͡si̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
mei5 zau2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
měi jiǔ
Middle
Chinese
‹ mijX › ‹ tsjuwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*rəjʔ/ /*tsuʔ/
English beautiful wine

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. 8951 15554
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mriʔ/ /*ʔsluʔ/
Notes

Noun

美酒

  1. good alcohol; fine liquor

Synonyms