糞土

Chinese

		manure; dung	earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
trad. (糞土)		糞	土
simp. (粪土)		粪	土

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fèntǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣˋ ㄊㄨˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan³ tou²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fun-thú
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pùn-thô͘

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fèntǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄣˋ ㄊㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fèntǔ
    • Wade–Giles: fên⁴-tʻu³
    • Yale: fèn-tǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenntuu
    • Palladius: фэньту (fɛnʹtu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən⁵¹ tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fan³ tou²
    • Yale: fan tóu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan³ tou²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen³ tou²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn³³ tʰou̯³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fun-thú
    • Hakka Romanization System: fun tu`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fun⁴ tu³
    • Sinological IPA: /fun⁵⁵ tʰu³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pùn-thô͘
    • Tâi-lô: pùn-thôo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: puontoo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pun²¹⁻⁵³ tʰɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pun⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tʰɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pun²¹⁻⁵³ tʰɔ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pun¹¹⁻⁵³ tʰɔ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pun²¹⁻⁴¹ tʰɔ²³/

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• Middle Chinese: pjunH thuX

Rime
Character	糞	土
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	透 (6)
Final (韻)	文 (59)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	方問切	他魯切
Baxter	pjunH	thuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pɨunH/	/tʰuoX/
Pan Wuyun	/piunH/	/tʰuoX/
Shao Rongfen	/piuənH/	/tʰoX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/punH/	/tʰɔX/
Li Rong	/piuənH/	/tʰoX/
Wang Li	/pĭuənH/	/tʰuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯uənH/	/tʰuoX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fèn	tǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fan3	tou2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*p[u]r-s  tʰˤaʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pɯns  l̥ʰaːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	糞	土
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fèn	tǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ pjunH ›	‹ thuX ›
Old Chinese	/*p[u]r-s/	/*tʰˁaʔ/
English	manure, dirt	earth
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	糞	土
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	3197	12499
Phonetic component	糞	土
Rime group	文	魚
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	糞	土
Old Chinese	/*pɯns/	/*l̥ʰaːʔ/

Noun

糞土

1. dirt; dung; dirty soil
2. (figurative) worthless thing; nothing

   視錢財如糞土／视钱财如粪土  ―  shì qiáncái rú fèntǔ  ―  to care little about money