Chinese edit

sigh (interrog. part.)
trad. (嗟乎)
simp. #(嗟乎)
alternative forms 嗟呼
嗟虖嗟呼

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (13) (33)
Final () (100) (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter tsjae hu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡sia/ /ɦuo/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡sia/ /ɦuo/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡sia/ /ɣo/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/t͡sia/ /ɦɔ/
Li
Rong
/t͡sia/ /ɣo/
Wang
Li
/t͡sĭa/ /ɣu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡si̯a/ /ɣuo/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
jiē
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ze1 wu4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
jiē
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsjæ › ‹ hu › ‹ hu ›
Old
Chinese
/*tsAj/ /*ɢˁa/ /*ɢˁa/
English sigh; alas! (Q particle) in, at

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. 18026 5189
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ʔsljal/ /*ɢaː/

Interjection edit

嗟乎

  1. (literary) alas; alack (placed sentence-initially)

Synonyms edit