公西

Chinese

		just; honourable; public just; honourable; public; common; fair; duke; mister	west
trad. (公西)		公	西
simp. #(公西)		公	西

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Gōngxī

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥ ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gung¹ sai¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Kong-se

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Gōngxī
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥ ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Gongsi
    • Wade–Giles: Kung¹-hsi¹
    • Yale: Gūng-syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Gongshi
    • Palladius: Гунси (Gunsi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gung¹ sai¹
    • Yale: gūng sāi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gung¹ sai¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gung¹ sei¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵ sɐi̯⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kong-se
    • Tâi-lô: Kong-se
    • Phofsit Daibuun: kongsef
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² se⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /kɔŋ³³ se³³/

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• Middle Chinese: kuwng sej

Rime
Character	公	西
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	東 (1)	齊 (39)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	IV
Fanqie	古紅切	先稽切
Baxter	kuwng	sej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuŋ/	/sei/
Pan Wuyun	/kuŋ/	/sei/
Shao Rongfen	/kuŋ/	/sɛi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kəwŋ/	/sɛj/
Li Rong	/kuŋ/	/sei/
Wang Li	/kuŋ/	/siei/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuŋ/	/siei/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gōng	xī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gung1	sai1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.qˤoŋ  s-nˤər/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kloːŋ  sɯːl/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	公	公	西
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	gōng	gōng	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ kuwng ›	‹ kuwng ›	‹ sej ›
Old Chinese	/*C.qˁoŋ/	/*C.qˁoŋ/	/*s-nˁər/
English	impartial, just; public	father; prince	west
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	公	西
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	4092	13236
Phonetic component	公	西
Rime group	東	微
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	公	西
Old Chinese	/*kloːŋ/	/*sɯːl/

Proper noun

公西

1. a surname