晦朔

Chinese

		dark; night; unlucky	beginning; first day of lunar month
trad. (晦朔)		晦	朔
simp. #(晦朔)		晦	朔

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): huìshuò

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄨㄟˋ ㄕㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fui³ sok³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: huìshuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄨㄟˋ ㄕㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: huèishuò
    • Wade–Giles: hui⁴-shuo⁴
    • Yale: hwèi-shwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hueyshuoh
    • Palladius: хуэйшо (xuejšo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xu̯eɪ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fui³ sok³
    • Yale: fui sok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fui³ sok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: fui³ sog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fuːi̯³³ sɔːk̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: xwojH sraewk

Rime
Character	晦	朔
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	灰 (42)	江 (10)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	II
Fanqie	荒内切	所角切
Baxter	xwojH	sraewk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/huʌiH/	/ʃˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/huoiH/	/ʃᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/xuɒiH/	/ʃɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hwəjH/	/ʂaɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/xuᴀiH/	/ʃɔk̚/
Wang Li	/xuɒiH/	/ʃɔk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/xuɑ̆iH/	/ʂɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	huì	shuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fui3	sok3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m̥ˤək-s  s-ŋrak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hmɯːs  sŋraːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	晦	朔
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	huì	shuò
Middle Chinese	‹ xwojH ›	‹ sræwk ›
Old Chinese	/*m̥ˁək-s/	/*s-ŋrak/
English	last day of a moon; dark	1st day of month
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	晦	朔
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9315	9468
Phonetic component	母	屰
Rime group	之	鐸
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime		朔
Old Chinese	/*hmɯːs/	/*sŋraːɡ/

Noun

晦朔

1. (literary) last and first days of the lunar month
2. (literary, obsolete) lunar month
3. (literary) morning and evening

   • 朝菌不知晦朔，蟪蛄不知春秋，此小年也。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zhāojūn bù zhī huìshuò, huìgū bù zhī chūnqiū, cǐ xiǎonián yě. [Pinyin]

     The mushroom of a morning does not know (what takes place between) the beginning and end of a month; the short-lived cicada does not know (what takes place between) the spring and autumn. These are instances of a short term of life.