雲譎波詭

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Chinese

cloud; Yunnan (abbrev.); surname deceitful wave; (Cantonese) ball sly; crafty
trad. (雲譎波詭)
simp. (云谲波诡)
anagrams 波譎雲詭波谲云诡
波詭雲譎波诡云谲

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1
Initial () (35) (28) (1) (28)
Final () (59) (88) (95) (14)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Checked (Ø) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Closed Closed
Division () III IV I III
Fanqie
Baxter hjun kwet pa kjweX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɦɨun/ /kwet̚/ /puɑ/ /kˠiuᴇX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɦiun/ /kʷet̚/ /puɑ/ /kʷᵚiɛX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɣiuən/ /kuɛt̚/ /puɑ/ /kiuɛX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɦun/ /kwɛt̚/ /pwa/ /kjwiə̆X/
Li
Rong
/ɣiuən/ /kuet̚/ /puɑ/ /kjueX/
Wang
Li
/ɣĭuən/ /kiwet̚/ /puɑ/ /kǐweX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/i̯uən/ /kiwet̚/ /puɑ/ /kwie̯X/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yún jue guǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
wan4 gyut3 bo1 gwai2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
yún jué guǐ
Middle
Chinese
‹ hjun › ‹ kwet › ‹ pa › ‹ kjweX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʷə/ /*ʷˁi/ /*pˁaj/ /*(r)ojʔ/
English cloud treacherous; deceive wave (n.) perverse

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 1/1 1/1
No. 16358 16006 9719 12767
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1 1 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɢun/ /*kʷiːd/ /*paːl/ /*krolʔ/

Idiom

雲譎波詭

  1. to be unpredictable and ever-changing; to be highly changeable

Synonyms