險巇

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Chinese

danger(ous); rugged mountain-gorge; ravine
trad. (險巇)
simp. (险巇)
alternative forms 嶮巇崄巇
險戲险戏

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (32) (32)
Final () (154) (13)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter xjemX xje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hˠiᴇmX/ /hˠiᴇ/
Pan
Wuyun
/hᵚiɛmX/ /hᵚiɛ/
Shao
Rongfen
/xiæmX/ /xiɛ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/hjiamX/ /hjiə̆/
Li
Rong
/xjɛmX/ /xje/
Wang
Li
/xĭɛmX/ /xǐe/
Bernard
Karlgren
/xi̯ɛmX/ /xie̯/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xiǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
him2 hei1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xiǎn xiǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ xjæmX › ‹ xjemX ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʰrmʔ/ /*qʰrmʔ/
English precipitous, dangerous precipitous, dangerous

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. 10221 5196
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʰramʔ/ /*qʰra/
Notes

Adjective

險巇

  1. (literary, of roads) difficult and dangerous