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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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未
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知
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| Reading #
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1/2
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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wèi
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zhī
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Middle
Chinese
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‹ mjɨjH ›
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‹ trje ›
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Old
Chinese
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/*mt-s/
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/*tre/
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| English
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not yet
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know
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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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Adjective
未知
- unknown
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Verb
未知
- (formal) to not know
於乎小子，未知臧否。匪手攜之，言示之事。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
於乎小子，未知臧否。匪手携之，言示之事。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
- Yúhū xiǎozǐ, wèizhī zāngpǐ. Fěi shǒu xié zhī, yán shì zhī shì.
- Ere you knew right from wrong, my son, I held your hand, and led you on.
又有可怪者。上帝惡世人罪惡，破天淵之水，以盡滅之，又俯念以色列盡戮埃及長子。此時其「不忍仁愛之性」未知何處去。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]- From: 1961, Kim Yeong'ik (金永益), 《西敎辨》
- U yu ga goe ja. Sangje o sein joeak, pa cheon yeon ji su, i jin myeol ji, u bunyeom Isaengnyeol jin ryuk Aegup jangja. Chasi gi "burin inae ji seong" miji hacheo geo. [Sino-Korean]
- There is another strange thing. God hating the sins of the people of the world, he broke open the waters of the heavenly vaults and annihilated them all thereby; and looking down upon Israel, he massacred all of Egypt's eldest sons. I do not know where this "kindhearted nature which cannot bear " was to be found at those times.
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Japanese
Pronunciation
Noun
未知 • (michi)
- unknown
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References