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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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閻
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| Reading #
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
yán
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ yem ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*m/
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| English
|
gate over street or lane
|
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.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
|
閭
|
閻
|
| Reading #
|
1/1
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1/1
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| No.
|
8578
|
13564
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Phonetic
component
|
呂
|
臽
|
Rime
group
|
魚
|
談
|
Rime
subdivision
|
0
|
3
|
Corresponding
MC rime
|
臚
|
鹽
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Old
Chinese
|
/*ra/
|
/*lom/
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Noun
閭閻
- (literary) gates on the inside and outside of a lane; (by extension) lane; alley
- (literary) among the people; common folk; ordinary people
Derived terms