足以

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Chinese

foot; to be sufficient
to use; according to; so as to
to use; according to; so as to; in order to; by; with; because; Israel (abbrev.)
 
trad. (足以)
simp. #(足以)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Initial () (13) (36)
Final () (8) (19)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter tsjowk yiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sɨok̚/ /jɨX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡siok̚/ /jɨX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡siok̚/ /ieX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡suawk̚/ /jɨX/
Li
Rong
/t͡siok̚/ /iəX/
Wang
Li
/t͡sĭwok̚/ /jĭəX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/t͡si̯wok̚/ /iX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zuk1 ji5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 2/3 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsjowk › ‹ yiX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ok/ /*ləʔ/
English sufficient take, use

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 # 2/2 1/1
No. 17925 14929
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsoɡ/ /*lɯʔ/

Adverb

足以

  1. sufficient to; enough to
    黑暗史足以寫出 [MSC, trad.]
    黑暗史足以写出 [MSC, simp.]
    Tā de hēi'ànshǐ zúyǐ xiěchū yī běn shū.
    Her dark past is enough to write a book.