Chinese edit

broom star; satellite; small amount
trad. (彗星)
simp. #(彗星)
alternative forms 篲星
慧星
 
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Pronunciation edit


Note:
  • hūi-chheⁿ/hūi-chhiⁿ - vernacular;
  • hūi-seng - literary.

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 3/3 1/1
Initial () (17) (17) (16)
Final () (16) (36) (125)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed Open
Division () III III IV
Fanqie
Baxter zwijH zjwejH seng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ziuɪH/ /ziuᴇiH/ /seŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/zʷiH/ /zʷiɛiH/ /seŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/zjuɪH/ /ziuæiH/ /sɛŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/zwiH/ /zwiajH/ /sɛjŋ/
Li
Rong
/zuiH/ /ziuɛiH/ /seŋ/
Wang
Li
/zwiH/ /zĭwɛiH/ /sieŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/zwiH/ /zi̯wɛiH/ /sieŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
suì suì xīng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
seoi6 seoi6 sing1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
huì xīng
Middle
Chinese
‹ zjwejH › ‹ seng ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-[ɢ]ʷe[t]-s/ /*s-tsʰˁeŋ/
English broom; comet 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
Reading # 1/3 3/3 1/1
No. 5462 5475 11371
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sɢʷeds/ /*sɢʷids/ /*sleːŋ/
Notes

Noun edit

彗星

  1. (astronomy) comet

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Sino-Xenic (彗星):
  • Japanese: 彗星(すいせい) (suisei)
  • Korean: 혜성(彗星) (hyeseong)

Japanese edit

 
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Kanji in this term
すい
Jinmeiyō
せい
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

(すい)(せい) (suisei

  1. (astronomy) comet

Alternative forms edit

Synonyms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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

彗星 (hyeseong) (hangeul 혜성)

  1. Hanja form? of 혜성 (comet).