苒荏

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Chinese

luxuriant growth; passing (of time) Perilla frutescens; soft
trad. (苒荏)
simp. #(苒荏)
anagram 荏苒

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (38) (38)
Final () (153) (139)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter nyemX nyimX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ȵiᴇmX/ /ȵiɪmX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ȵiɛmX/ /ȵimX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ȵʑjæmX/ /ȵʑjemX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ȵiamX/ /ȵimX/
Li
Rong
/ȵiɛmX/ /ȵiəmX/
Wang
Li
/ȵʑĭɛmX/ /ȵʑĭĕmX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ȵʑi̯ɛmX/ /ȵʑi̯əmX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
rǎn rěn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jim5 jam5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
rěn
Middle
Chinese
‹ nyimX ›
Old
Chinese
/*nmʔ/ (< *num?)
English a kind of big beans

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. 10785 10814
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*njamʔ/ /*njɯmʔ/

Verb

苒荏

  1. (literary) Synonym of 荏苒 (rěnrǎn, (of time) to pass gradually)