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Chinese
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to close; to shut; to turn off to close; to shut; to turn off; to concern; to involve; mountain pass |
to stuff; to stop up; to squeeze in to stuff; to stop up; to squeeze in; strategic pass; piston; unenlightened; Serb (abbrev.); Serbian |
| trad. (關塞)
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關
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塞
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| simp. (关塞)
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关
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塞
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Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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關
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塞
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塞
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| Reading #
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1/3
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1/3
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2/3
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
guān
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sài
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sài
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ kwæn ›
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‹ sojH ›
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‹ sojH ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*ˁro/
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/*ˁək-s/
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/*ˁək-s/
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| English
|
barrier
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frontier
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pass (n.)
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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
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關
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塞
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/2
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| No.
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8640
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10958
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Phonetic
component
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卵
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塞
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Rime
group
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元
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代
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Rime
subdivision
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3
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0
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Corresponding
MC rime
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關
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賽
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Old
Chinese
|
/*kroːn/
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/*slɯːɡs/
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Noun
關塞
- frontier pass and fortress
Descendants
Vietnamese
Noun
關塞
- chữ Hán form of quan tái (“frontier pass and fortress”).