彗星

Chinese

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

Pronunciation


Note:
  • hūi-chheⁿ/hūi-chhiⁿ - vernacular;
  • hūi-seng - literary.
    • Wu
      • (Shanghai):
        • Wugniu: 6we-shin
        • MiniDict: we去 shin
        • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): 3hhue-xin
        • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ɦue²² ɕin⁴⁴/

Rime
Character 彗 彗 星
Reading # 1/3 3/3 1/1
Initial (聲) 邪 (17) 邪 (17) 心 (16)
Final (韻) 脂 (16) 祭 (36) 青 (125)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Open
Division (等) III III IV
Fanqie 徐醉切 祥歲切 桑經切
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/
Bernard
Karlgren
/zwiH/ /zi̯wɛiH/ /sieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
suì suì xīng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
seoi6 seoi6 sing1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 彗 星
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huì xīng
Middle
Chinese
‹ zjwejH › ‹ seng ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-[ɢ]ʷe[t]-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. *[t] 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 彗 彗 星
Reading # 1/3 3/3 1/1
No. 5462 5475 11371
Phonetic
component
彗 彗 生
Rime
group
祭 至 耕
Rime
subdivision
2 1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
篲 遂 星
Old
Chinese
/*sɢʷeds/ /*sɢʷids/ /*sleːŋ/
Notes 説文曐或體

Noun

彗星

  1. (astronomy) comet

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • 周期彗星
  • 哈雷彗星 (Hāléi huìxīng)
  • 畢拉彗星/毕拉彗星
  • 百武彗星

Descendants

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

Japanese

Kanji in this term
彗 星
すい
Jinmeiyō
せい
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

Noun

彗(すい)星(せい) • (suisei) 

  1. (astronomy) comet

Alternative forms

Synonyms

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
彗星

Noun

彗星 • (hyeseong) (hangeul 혜성)

  1. Hanja form? of 혜성 (“comet”).
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