西戎

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Chinese

		west	weapon
simp. and trad. (西戎)		西	戎

Wikipedia has articles on:

西戎 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
Xirong (English)

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Xīróng

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄖㄨㄥˊ
Cantonese (Jyutping): sai¹ jung⁴

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Xīróng
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄖㄨㄥˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Siróng
  - Wade–Giles: Hsi¹-jung²
  - Yale: Syī-rúng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shirong
  - Palladius: Сижун (Sižun)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ ʐʊŋ³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: sai¹ jung⁴
  - Yale: sāi yùhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: sai¹ jung⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: sei¹ yung⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɐi̯⁵⁵ jʊŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese: sej nyuwng

Rime
Character	西	戎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	先稽切	如融切
Baxter	sej	nyuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sei/	/ȵɨuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/sei/	/ȵiuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛi/	/ȵʑiuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛj/	/ȵuwŋ/
Li Rong	/sei/	/ȵiuŋ/
Wang Li	/siei/	/ȵʑĭuŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/siei/	/ȵʑi̯uŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī	róng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sai¹	jung⁴

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s-nˤər nuŋ/

(Zhengzhang): /*sɯːl njuŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	西	戎
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī	róng
Middle Chinese	‹ sej ›	‹ nyuwng ›
Old Chinese	/*s-nˁər/	/*nuŋ/
English	west	foreigners in the west
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	戎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	13236	10849
Phonetic component	西	戎
Rime group	微	終
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	西	戎
Old Chinese	/*sɯːl/	/*njuŋ/

Proper noun

西戎

(historical) “Western Barbarians” (non-Chinese ethnic groups living to China's west)

See also

南蠻／南蛮 (Nánmán, “southern barbarians”)
北狄 (Běidí, “northern barbarians”)
東夷／东夷 (Dōngyí, “eastern barbarians”)

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