西南夷

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Chinese

southwest
safe; to raze; to exterminate
safe; to raze; to exterminate; barbarian
 
simp. and trad.
(西南夷)
西南
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Pronunciation



Rime
Character 西
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1
Initial () (16) (8) (36)
Final () (39) (159) (15)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () IV I III
Fanqie
Baxter sej nom yij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sei/ /nʌm/ /jiɪ/
Pan
Wuyun
/sei/ /nəm/ /ji/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɛi/ /nɒm/ /jɪ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɛj/ /nəm/ /ji/
Li
Rong
/sei/ /nᴀm/ /i/
Wang
Li
/siei/ /nɒm/ /ji/
Bernard
Karlgren
/siei/ /năm/ /i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sai1 naam4 ji4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 西
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nán
Middle
Chinese
‹ sej › ‹ nom › ‹ yij › ‹ yij ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-nˁər/ /*nˁm/ /*ləj/ /*ləj/
English west south level, peaceful foreigner (especially to the east)

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 西
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1
No. 13236 9355 14862
Phonetic
component
西
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 2 1
Corresponding
MC rime
西
Old
Chinese
/*sɯːl/ /*nuːm/ /*lil/

Proper noun

西南夷

  1. (historical) "Southwestern Barbarians" (non-Han ethnic groups living in present-day Guizhou, Yunnan and southwestern Sichuan)