處子

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See also: 处子 and 処子

Chinese

to reside; to stay at home; virginity
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
 
trad. (處子)
simp. (处子)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Initial () (24) (13)
Final () (22) (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter tsyhoX tsiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕʰɨʌX/ /t͡sɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʰiɔX/ /t͡sɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰiɔX/ /t͡sieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cʰɨə̆X/ /t͡sɨX/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕʰiɔX/ /t͡siəX/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕʰĭoX/ /t͡sĭəX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕʰi̯woX/ /t͡siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cyu2 zi2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chǔ
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyhoX › ‹ tsiX › ‹ tsiX ›
Old
Chinese
/*t.qʰaʔ/ /*əʔ/ /*tsəʔ/
English be at 1st earthly branch child; gentleman, master

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 # 1/2 1/1
No. 5248 17857
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰljaʔ/ /*ʔslɯʔ/

Noun

處子

  1. unmarried woman
  2. (literary) female virgin; maiden

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (處子):
  • Japanese: 処子(しょし) (shoshi)
  • Korean: 처자(處子) (cheoja)

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

處子 (cheoja) (hangeul 처자)

  1. hanja form? of 처자 (unmarried woman)
  2. hanja form? of 처자 ((literary) virgin (female); maiden)