雲漢

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Chinese

cloud; Yunnan (abbrev.); surname Chinese; name of a dynasty; man
trad. (雲漢)
simp. (云汉)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (35) (32)
Final () (59) (61)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter hjun xanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦɨun/ /hɑnH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦiun/ /hɑnH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣiuən/ /xɑnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦun/ /hanH/
Li
Rong
/ɣiuən/ /xɑnH/
Wang
Li
/ɣĭuən/ /xɑnH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/i̯uən/ /xɑnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yún hàn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
wan4 hon3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yún hàn
Middle
Chinese
‹ hjun › ‹ xanH ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʷə/ /*n̥ˁar-s/ (W dialect: *n̥- > MC x-, *-r > *-n)
English cloud (river name)

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. 16358 4905
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢun/ /*hnaːns/

Noun

雲漢

  1. (literary) the Milky Way
  2. (literary) sky; heavens
  3. (literary, figuratively) summer drought
  4. (literary) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Synonyms