今昔

Chinese

		today; modern; present today; modern; present; current; this; now	past; former
trad. (今昔)		今	昔
simp. #(今昔)		今	昔

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīnxī, jīnxí

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄣ ㄒㄧ, ㄐㄧㄣ ㄒㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gam¹ sik¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Mainland)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīnxī
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jinsi
    • Wade–Giles: chin¹-hsi¹
    • Yale: jīn-syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinshi
    • Palladius: цзиньси (czinʹsi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ɕi⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Taiwan)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīnxí
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄣ ㄒㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jinsí
    • Wade–Giles: chin¹-hsi²
    • Yale: jīn-syí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jinshyi
    • Palladius: цзиньси (czinʹsi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕin⁵⁵ ɕi³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gam¹ sik¹
    • Yale: gām sīk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gam¹ sik⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: gem¹ xig¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɐm⁵⁵ sɪk̚⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 今昔 金色

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• Middle Chinese: kim sjek

Rime
Character	今	昔
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	侵 (140)	清 (123)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	居吟切	思積切
Baxter	kim	sjek
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠiɪm/	/siᴇk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚim/	/siɛk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/kiem/	/siæk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kjim/	/siajk̚/
Li Rong	/kjəm/	/siɛk̚/
Wang Li	/kĭĕm/	/sĭɛk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯əm/	/si̯ɛk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jīn	xi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gam1	sik1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]r[ə]m  [s]Ak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*krɯm  sjaːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	今	昔
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jīn	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ kim ›	‹ sjek ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]r[ə]m/	/*[s]Ak/
English	now	in the past
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	今	昔
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	6599	13309
Phonetic component	今	昔
Rime group	侵	鐸
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	金	昔
Old Chinese	/*krɯm/	/*sjaːɡ/
Notes	文源謂含初文

Noun

今昔

1. (Classical) last night
2. (literary) the present and the past

   Synonym: 古今 (gǔjīn)

Derived terms

• 今昔之感

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (今昔):

• → Japanese: 今(こん)昔(じゃく) (konjaku)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
今	昔
こん Grade: 2	しゃく > じゃく Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) こんじゃく [kòńjákú] (Heiban – [0])
• (Tokyo) こ​んじゃく [kóꜜǹjàkù] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [kõ̞ɲ̟d͡ʑa̠kɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

今(こん)昔(じゃく) • (konjaku) ^{←こんじやく (konzyaku)?}

1. the past and the present