西戎

Chinese

west weapon
simp. and trad.
(西戎)
西 戎

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 西 戎
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 日 (38)
Final (韻) 齊 (39) 東 (2)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV III
Fanqie 先稽切 如融切
Baxter sej nyuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sei/ /ȵɨuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/sei/ /ȵiuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɛi/ /ȵʑiuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɛj/ /ȵuwŋ/
Li
Rong
/sei/ /ȵiuŋ/
Wang
Li
/siei/ /ȵʑĭuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/siei/ /ȵʑi̯uŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xī róng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sai1 jung4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 西 戎
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xī róng
Middle
Chinese
‹ sej › ‹ nyuwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-nˁər/ /*nuŋ/
English west foreigners in the west

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 西 戎
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 13236 10849
Phonetic
component
西 戎
Rime
group
微 終
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
西 戎
Old
Chinese
/*sɯːl/ /*njuŋ/

Proper noun

西戎

  1. (historical) “Western Barbarians” (non-Chinese ethnic groups living to China's west)

See also

  • 南蠻/南蛮 (Nánmán, “southern barbarians”)
  • 北狄 (Běidí, “northern barbarians”)
  • 東夷/东夷 (Dōngyí, “eastern barbarians”)
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