客星

Chinese

		customer; visitor; guest	star; satellite; small amount
simp. and trad. (客星)		客	星

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kèxīng

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄜˋ ㄒㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): haak³ sing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kèxīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄜˋ ㄒㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kèsing
    • Wade–Giles: kʻo⁴-hsing¹
    • Yale: kè-syīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kehshing
    • Palladius: кэсин (kɛsin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɤ⁵¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: haak³ sing¹
    • Yale: haak sīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: haak⁸ sing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hag³ xing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /haːk̚³ sɪŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: khaek seng

Rime
Character	客	星
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	庚 (113)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	IV
Fanqie	苦格切	桑經切
Baxter	khaek	seng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰˠæk̚/	/seŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰᵚak̚/	/seŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰak̚/	/sɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰaɨjk̚/	/sɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/kʰɐk̚/	/seŋ/
Wang Li	/kʰɐk̚/	/sieŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/kʰɐk̚/	/sieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ke	xīng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hak1	sing1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kʰˤrak  s-tsʰˤeŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰraːɡ  sleːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	客	星
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kè	xīng
Middle Chinese	‹ khæk ›	‹ seng ›
Old Chinese	/*kʰˁrak/	/*s-tsʰˁeŋ/
English	guest	star
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	客	星
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	3903	11371
Phonetic component	各	生
Rime group	鐸	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	客	星
Old Chinese	/*kʰraːɡ/	/*sleːŋ/
Notes		説文曐或體

Noun

客星

1. (astronomy) guest star (nova or supernova recorded in Chinese astronomy which has appeared where no star was known before)

Descendants

• → English: guest star (calque)