一家之言

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Chinese

one; single; a
one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)
 
home; family; ‑ist
home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools
 
's; him/her/it; this
to speak; to say; talk
to speak; to say; talk; word
 
simp. and trad.
(一家之言)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1 1/1 1/1
Initial () (34) (28) (23) (31)
Final () (48) (98) (19) (65)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open Open
Division () III II III III
Fanqie
Baxter 'jit kae tsyi ngjon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔiɪt̚/ /kˠa/ /t͡ɕɨ/ /ŋɨɐn/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔit̚/ /kᵚa/ /t͡ɕɨ/ /ŋiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔjet̚/ /ka/ /t͡ɕie/ /ŋiɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔit̚/ /kaɨ/ /cɨ/ /ŋɨan/
Li
Rong
/ʔiĕt̚/ /ka/ /t͡ɕiə/ /ŋiɐn/
Wang
Li
/ĭĕt̚/ /ka/ /t͡ɕĭə/ /ŋĭɐn/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʔi̯ĕt̚/ /ka/ /t͡ɕi/ /ŋɨ̯ɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
yi jiā zhī yán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
jat1 gaa1 zi1 jin4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1 2/2 3/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiā zhī yán
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔjit › ‹  › ‹ tsyi › ‹ ngjon ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔi/ /*kˁra/ /*tə/ /*ŋa/
English one household (3p object pronoun; attributive particle) speak; speech

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. 14833 5919 17188 14271
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0 0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qliɡ/ /*kraː/ /*tjɯ/ /*ŋan/

Idiom

一家之言

  1. statements of a school; (merely) one school of thought
  2. (often humble) one's own thought, opinion, interpretation, etc. (implying bias, incompleteness, etc.)