京觀

Chinese

		capital; Beijing (abbrev.)	to look at; to watch; to observe to look at; to watch; to observe; to behold; Taoist monastery
trad. (京觀)		京	觀
simp. (京观)		京	观

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīngguàn

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥ ㄍㄨㄢˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīngguàn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥ ㄍㄨㄢˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jingguàn
    • Wade–Giles: ching¹-kuan⁴
    • Yale: jīng-gwàn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jingguann
    • Palladius: цзингуань (czinguanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ ku̯än⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: kjaeng kwanH

Rime
Character	京	觀
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)	桓 (62)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	舉卿切	古玩切
Baxter	kjaeng	kwanH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠiæŋ/	/kuɑnH/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚiaŋ/	/kʷɑnH/
Shao Rongfen	/kiaŋ/	/kuɑnH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kiajŋ/	/kwanH/
Li Rong	/kiɐŋ/	/kuɑnH/
Wang Li	/kĭɐŋ/	/kuɑnH/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯ɐŋ/	/kuɑnH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jīng	guàn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ging1	gun3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]raŋ  C.qʷˤar-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kraŋ  koːns/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	京	觀
Reading #	1/1	2/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jīng	guàn
Middle Chinese	‹ kjæng ›	‹ kwanH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]raŋ/	/*C.qʷˁar-s/
English	hill; capital city	watchtower
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	京	觀
Reading #	1/1	2/2
No.	6828	4477
Phonetic component	京	雚
Rime group	陽	元
Rime subdivision	0	3
Corresponding MC rime	驚	貫
Old Chinese	/*kraŋ/	/*koːns/

Noun

京觀

1. (historical, archaic) war memorial made out of a mound of human corpses