赤烏

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Chinese

 
red; scarlet; bare
red; scarlet; bare; naked
 
a crow; black; not
a crow; black; not; empty; void
trad. (赤烏)
simp. (赤乌)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (24) (34)
Final () (123) (23)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter tsyhek 'u
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕʰiᴇk̚/ /ʔuo/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/ /ʔuo/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰiæk̚/ /ʔo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cʰiajk̚/ /ʔɔ/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/ /ʔo/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕʰĭɛk̚/ /u/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕʰi̯ɛk̚/ /ʔuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cik1 wu1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/3 2/3 3/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chì
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyhek › ‹ ʔu › ‹ ʔu › ‹ ʔu ›
Old
Chinese
/*(r)Ak/ /*ˁa/ /*qˁa/ /*ʔˁa/
English red oh! crow, raven; black 烏桓, 烏丸 Wūhuán: Avars (W. Hàn)

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. 1477 13077
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰljaɡ/ /*qaː/

Noun

赤烏

  1. A legendary auspicious bird.
  2. (literary, figuratively) sun