Chinese edit

obscure; mysterious dark; deep; southeast corner of room
trad. (奧窔)
simp. (奥窔)
alternative forms 奧窔奥窔
窔奧窔奥
穾奧穾奥

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (34) (34)
Final () (89) (93)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I IV
Fanqie
Baxter 'awH 'ewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔɑuH/ /ʔeuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔɑuH/ /ʔeuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɑuH/ /ʔeuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔawH/ /ʔɛwH/
Li
Rong
/ʔɑuH/ /ʔeuH/
Wang
Li
/ɑuH/ /ieuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔɑuH/ /ʔieuH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ào yào
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ou3 jiu3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
ào
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔawH › ‹ ʔjuwk ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔˁuk-s/ /*ʔ(r)uk/
English southwest corner of a house cove in the bank of a stream

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 72 6338
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*quːɡs/ /*qeːws/

Adjective edit

奧窔

  1. (obsolete) The southwest and southeast corners of the room; the inside of the room
  2. (literary, uncommon) a secluded place
  3. (literary) profundity; subtlety; marvel