覯閔

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Chinese

complete; meet unexpectedly; see surname; feel compassion for
trad. (覯閔)
simp. (觏闵)
alternative forms 遘愍
遘閔遘闵

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (28) (4)
Final () (137) (44)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter kuwH minX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kəuH/ /mˠiɪnX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kəuH/ /mᵚinX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kəuH/ /mienX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kəwH/ /mjinX/
Li
Rong
/kuH/ /mjĕnX/
Wang
Li
/kəuH/ /mǐĕnX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kə̯uH/ /mi̯ĕnX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gòu mǐn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gau3 man5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gòu mǐn
Middle
Chinese
‹ kuwH › ‹ minX ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˁ(r)o-s/ /*mrəʔ/
English come across, meet with grieved

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. 4194 9154
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*koːs/ /*mrɯnʔ/
Notes

Verb

覯閔

  1. (literary) to suffer from great misfortune
  2. (literary) to lose one's parents

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