西甌

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Chinese

west bowl; cup
trad. (西甌) 西 甌
simp. (西瓯) 西 瓯
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Pronunciation

Rime
Character 西 甌
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 齊 (39) 侯 (137)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV I
Fanqie 先稽切 烏侯切
Baxter sej 'uw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/sei/ /ʔəu/
Pan
Wuyun 		/sei/ /ʔəu/
Shao
Rongfen 		/sɛi/ /ʔəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/sɛj/ /ʔəw/
Li
Rong 		/sei/ /ʔu/
Wang
Li 		/siei/ /əu/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/siei/ /ʔə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		xī ōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		sai1 au1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 西
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		xī
Middle
Chinese 		‹ sej ›
Old
Chinese 		/*s-nˁər/
English 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 甌
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 13236 10586
Phonetic
component 		西 區
Rime
group 		微 侯
Rime
subdivision 		1 0
Corresponding
MC rime 		西 謳
Old
Chinese 		/*sɯːl/ /*qoː/

Proper noun

西甌

  1. (historical) Xi Ou (a branch of the Baiyue that inhabited present-day Guangxi)

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