See also: 寻常

Chinese edit

length unit equal to 8 chi length unit equal to 16 chi
trad. (尋常)
simp. (寻常)

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (17) (25)
Final () (139) (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter zim dzyang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ziɪm/ /d͡ʑɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/zim/ /d͡ʑiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/zjem/ /d͡ʑiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/zim/ /d͡ʑɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/ziəm/ /ʑiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/zĭĕm/ /ʑĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/zi̯əm/ /ʑi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xín cháng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
cam4 soeng4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xún cháng
Middle
Chinese
‹ zim › ‹ dzyang ›
Old
Chinese
/*sə-l[ə]m/ /*[d]aŋ/
English measure of 8 chǐ 尺 constant

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. 14127 11152
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ljum/ /*djaŋ/
Notes

Adjective edit

尋常

  1. ordinary; common
    超乎尋常超乎寻常  ―  chāohū xúncháng  ―  to be extraordinary; to be exceptional
  2. (Classical) short (in distance)

Synonyms edit

  • (ordinary):

Antonyms edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (尋常):

Japanese edit

Kanji in this term
じん
Grade: S
じょう
Grade: 5
goon

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

(じん)(じょう) (jinjōじんじやう (zinzyau)?-na (adnominal (じん)(じょう) (jinjō na), adverbial (じん)(じょう) (jinjō ni))

  1. ordinary, common
  2. pleasant, graceful
  3. fair, sportsmanlike

Inflection edit

Noun edit

(じん)(じょう) (jinjōじんじやう (zinzyau)?

  1. commonness
    Synonyms: あたりまえ (atarimae), 通常 (tsūjō), 並み (nami), 普通 (futsū)
  2. grace
  3. fairness
  4. (historical) Clipping of 尋常小学校 (jinjō shōgakkō, ordinary elementary school).

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja in this term

Noun edit

尋常 (simsang) (hangeul 심상)

  1. Hanja form? of 심상.

Vietnamese edit

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Adjective edit

尋常

  1. chữ Hán form of tầm thường (commonplace; mediocre; trivial; ordinary).