鷁首

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Chinese

fishhawk bow or prow
head; chief; first (occasion)
head; chief; first (occasion); first (thing); measure word for poems
 
trad. (鷁首)
simp. (鹢首)
alternative forms 艗艏

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial () (31) (26)
Final () (127) (136)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV III
Fanqie
Baxter ngek syuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋek̚/ /ɕɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋek̚/ /ɕiuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋɛk̚/ /ɕiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋɛjk̚/ /ɕuwX/
Li
Rong
/ŋek̚/ /ɕiuX/
Wang
Li
/ŋiek̚/ /ɕĭəuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ŋiek̚/ /ɕi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shǒu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jik6 sau2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shǒu
Middle
Chinese
‹ ngek › ‹ syuwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*m-ɢˁek/ /*l̥uʔ/
English kind of aquatic bird head

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 1/2
No. 15086 11671
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋɡleːɡ/ /*hljuʔ/

Noun

鷁首

  1. (obsolete) bird-shaped figurehead of a ship
  2. (metonymically, literary, poetic) ship (often a highly ornate one)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (鷁首):