土撥鼠

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See also: 土拨鼠

Chinese

earth; dust; rural
earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
 
to push aside; to appropriate (money); to move
to push aside; to appropriate (money); to move; to set aside; group; batch; to poke; to stir
 
rat; mouse
trad. (土撥鼠)
simp. (土拨鼠)

Etymology

First attested in Bencao Shiyi (本草拾遺, 739 CE) by Chen Cangqi (陳藏器). A loan-blend consisting of 土撥 (Phono-semantic matching of Proto-Mongolic *tarbagan) and 鼠 (Han, 2023).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1 1/1
Initial () (6) (7) (1) (26)
Final () (23) (23) (64) (22)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X) Checked (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Closed Open
Division () I I I III
Fanqie
Baxter thuX duX pat syoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tʰuoX/ /duoX/ /puɑt̚/ /ɕɨʌX/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʰuoX/ /duoX/ /pʷɑt̚/ /ɕiɔX/
Shao
Rongfen
/tʰoX/ /doX/ /puɑt̚/ /ɕiɔX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tʰɔX/ /dɔX/ /pwat̚/ /ɕɨə̆X/
Li
Rong
/tʰoX/ /doX/ /puɑt̚/ /ɕiɔX/
Wang
Li
/tʰuX/ /duX/ /puɑt̚/ /ɕĭoX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/tʰuoX/ /dʱuoX/ /puɑt̚/ /ɕi̯woX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
bo shǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
tou2 dou6 but3 syu2

Noun

土撥鼠

  1. marmot

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Derived terms

References

Han, Dongyang (韩冬阳) (2023) “土拨鼠”为什么不叫“拨土鼠”. 咬文嚼字(4).