彗星

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Chinese

broom star; satellite; small amount
trad. (彗星)
simp. #(彗星)
alternative forms 篲星
慧星
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Pronunciation


Note:
  • hūi-chheⁿ/hūi-chhiⁿ - vernacular;
  • hūi-seng - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 3/3 1/1
Initial () (17) (17) (16)
Final () (16) (36) (125)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Open
Division () III III IV
Fanqie
Baxter zwijH zjwejH seng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ziuɪH/ /ziuᴇiH/ /seŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/zʷiH/ /zʷiɛiH/ /seŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/zjuɪH/ /ziuæiH/ /sɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/zwiH/ /zwiajH/ /sɛjŋ/
Li
Rong
/zuiH/ /ziuɛiH/ /seŋ/
Wang
Li
/zwiH/ /zĭwɛiH/ /sieŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/zwiH/ /zi̯wɛiH/ /sieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
suì suì xīng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
seoi6 seoi6 sing1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huì xīng
Middle
Chinese
‹ zjwejH › ‹ seng ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-ʷe-s/ /*s-tsʰˁeŋ/
English broom; comet star

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 # 1/3 3/3 1/1
No. 5462 5475 11371
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sɢʷeds/ /*sɢʷids/ /*sleːŋ/
Notes

Noun

彗星

  1. (astronomy) comet

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (彗星):
  • Japanese: 彗星(すいせい) (suisei)
  • Korean: 혜성(彗星) (hyeseong)

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
すい
Jinmeiyō
せい
Grade: 2
on'yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

(すい)(せい) (suisei

  1. (astronomy) comet

Alternative forms

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term

Noun

彗星 (hyeseong) (hangeul 혜성)

  1. hanja form? of 혜성 (comet)