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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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宗
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族
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
zōng
|
zú
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ tsowng ›
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‹ dzuwk ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*ˁuŋ/
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/*ˁok/
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| English
|
ancestral temple
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clan
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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.
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Noun
宗族
- patriarchal clan
- clansman
Synonyms
- (patriarchal clan): 系族 (xìzú)