商旅

Chinese

		commerce; consult	trip; travel
trad. (商旅)		商	旅
simp. #(商旅)		商	旅

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shānglǚ

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄤ ㄌㄩˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng¹ leoi⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shānglǚ
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄤ ㄌㄩˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shanglyǔ
    • Wade–Giles: shang¹-lü³
    • Yale: shāng-lyǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shangleu
    • Palladius: шанлюй (šanljuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑŋ⁵⁵ ly²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: soeng¹ leoi⁵
    • Yale: sēung léuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soeng¹ loey⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêng¹ lêu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ⁵⁵ lɵy̯¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: syang ljoX

Rime
Character	商	旅
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	書 (26)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	式羊切	力舉切
Baxter	syang	ljoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɕɨɐŋ/	/lɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɕiɐŋ/	/liɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɕiɑŋ/	/liɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɕɨaŋ/	/lɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/ɕiaŋ/	/liɔX/
Wang Li	/ɕĭaŋ/	/lĭoX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ɕi̯aŋ/	/li̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shāng	lǚ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	soeng1	leoi5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-taŋ  [r]aʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljaŋ  ɡ·raʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	商	商	商	旅
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shāng	shāng	shāng	lǚ
Middle Chinese	‹ syang ›	‹ syang ›	‹ syang ›	‹ ljoX ›
Old Chinese	/*s-taŋ/	/*s-taŋ/	/*s-taŋ/	/*[r]aʔ/
English	musical note	(place name)	estimate; business; trader	military unit of 500 men; to go
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	商	旅
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	11097	8600
Phonetic component	商	旅
Rime group	陽	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	商	吕
Old Chinese	/*hljaŋ/	/*ɡ·raʔ/

Noun

商旅

1. (literary) itinerant trader; travelling merchant; pedlar

Synonyms

• 行商 (xíngshāng)