群臣

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Chinese

crowd; flock; group
statesman; vassal; courtier
statesman; vassal; courtier; minister; official
 
trad. (群臣/羣臣) /
simp. (群臣)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (30) (25)
Final () (59) (43)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter gjun dzyin
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡɨun/ /d͡ʑiɪn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡiun/ /d͡ʑin/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡiuən/ /d͡ʑjen/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gun/ /d͡ʑin/
Li
Rong
/ɡiuən/ /ʑiĕn/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭuən/ /ʑĭĕn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi̯uən/ /ʑi̯ĕn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qún chén
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
kwan4 san4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
qún chén
Middle
Chinese
‹ gjun › ‹ dzyin ›
Old
Chinese
/*ur/ /*i/
English flock, herd, group slave, subject

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. 7295 1342
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡlun/ /*ɡiŋ/
Notes

使

Noun

群臣

  1. large number of officials

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (群臣):

Japanese

Kanji in this term
ぐん
Grade: 4
しん
Grade: 4
on'yomi

Noun

(ぐん)(しん) (gunshin

  1. a large number of retainers