Chinese edit

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (4) (36)
Final () (92) (35)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter mjew yejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/mˠiᴇu/ /jiᴇiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/mᵚiɛu/ /jiɛiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/miæu/ /jæiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/miaw/ /jiajH/
Li
Rong
/mjɛu/ /iɛiH/
Wang
Li
/mĭɛu/ /jĭɛiH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/mi̯ɛu/ /i̯ɛiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
miáo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
miu4 jai6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
miáo
Middle
Chinese
‹ mjew › ‹ yejH ›
Old
Chinese
/*m(r)aw/ /*l[a][t]-s/
English sprout (n.) posterity; border

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. 9108 15165
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*mrew/ /*leds/

Etymology 1 edit

descendant descendants; frontier
trad. (苗裔)
simp. #(苗裔)

Noun edit

苗裔

  1. (literary) offspring; descendant; progeny; seed
Synonyms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Miao descendants; frontier
trad. (苗裔)
simp. #(苗裔)

Noun edit

苗裔

  1. person of Miao ancestry (usually born abroad, to parent(s) of Miao ancestry)

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
びょう
Grade: S
えい
Hyōgaiji
on’yomi

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(びょう)(えい) (byōeiべうえい (beuei)?

  1. offspring; descendant; progeny; seed

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN