不律

Chinese

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùlǜ

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄩˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùlǜ
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄌㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùlyù
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-lü⁴
    • Yale: bù-lyù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buliuh
    • Palladius: булюй (buljuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹⁻³⁵ ly⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: pjuw|pjuwX|pjut lwit

Rime
Character	不	不	不	律
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)	尤 (136)	物 (60)	術 (52)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III	III	III
Fanqie	甫鳩切	方久切	分勿切	呂卹切
Baxter	pjuw	pjuwX	pjut	lwit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨu/	/pɨuX/	/pɨut̚/	/liuɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/piu/	/piuX/	/piut̚/	/lʷit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/piəu/	/piəuX/	/piuət̚/	/ljuet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/puw/	/puwX/	/put̚/	/lwit̚/
Li Rong	/piu/	/piuX/	/piuət̚/	/liuĕt̚/
Wang Li	/pĭəu/	/pĭəuX/	/pĭuət̚/	/lĭuĕt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ə̯u/	/pi̯ə̯uX/	/pi̯uət̚/	/li̯uĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fōu	fǒu	fu	lǜ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fau1	fau2	fat1	leot6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*pə  [r]ut/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pɯ|pɯʔ|pɯ'  rud/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	不	不	律	律
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bù	bù	lǜ	lǜ
Middle Chinese	‹ pjuw ›	‹ pjuw ›	‹ lwit ›	‹ lwit ›
Old Chinese	/*pə/	/*pə/	/*[r]ut/	/*[r]ut/
English	not	不律 writing brush (pron. in Wú 吳 ap. Shuōwén; E. Hàn)	law, rule (n.)	不律 writing brush (pron. in Wú 吳 ap. Shuōwén; E. Hàn)
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	不	不	不	律
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3	1/1
No.	1025	1029	1048	15978
Phonetic component	不	不	不	聿
Rime group	之	之	物	物
Rime subdivision	0	0	1	2
Corresponding MC rime	不	缶	弗	律
Old Chinese	/*pɯ/	/*pɯʔ/	/*pɯ'/	/*rud/
Notes		象花柎與本同源	中古才促化

Etymology 1

		not; no	law
simp. and trad. (不律)		不	律

Verb

不律

1. (literary) to not follow
2. (literary) to not observe norms

Derived terms

• 不律頭／不律头
• 方頭不律／方头不律

 

Etymology 2

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (不律)		不	律

Related to 筆 (OC *prud).

Noun

不律

1. (archaic Sichuan dialect) writing brush