犬子

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Chinese

dog
child; son; (noun suffix)
child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
 
simp. and trad.
(犬子)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (29) (13)
Final () (86) (19)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () IV III
Fanqie
Baxter khwenX tsiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kʰwenX/ /t͡sɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʰʷenX/ /t͡sɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/kʰuɛnX/ /t͡sieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kʰwɛnX/ /t͡sɨX/
Li
Rong
/kʰuenX/ /t͡siəX/
Wang
Li
/kʰiwenX/ /t͡sĭəX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kʰiwenX/ /t͡siX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
quǎn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hyun2 zi2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
quǎn
Middle
Chinese
‹ khwenX › ‹ tsiX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʷʰˁʔ/ /*tsəʔ/
English dog child; gentleman, master

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
No. 10736 17857
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʰʷeːnʔ/ /*ʔslɯʔ/

Noun

犬子

  1. (literary) young dog; puppy
  2. (literary, humble) my son

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Proper noun

犬子

  1. another name of Sima Xiangru