扶蘇

Chinese

		to support with hand; to help sb. up; to help	(plant); place name; revive (plant); place name; revive; Soviet
trad. (扶蘇)		扶	蘇
simp. (扶苏)		扶	苏
alternative forms		扶胥

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fúsū

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄨˊ ㄙㄨ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fúsū
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄨˊ ㄙㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fúsu
    • Wade–Giles: fu²-su¹
    • Yale: fú-sū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fwusu
    • Palladius: фусу (fusu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fu³⁵ su⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: bju su

Rime
Character	扶	蘇
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	防無切	素姑切
Baxter	bju	su
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bɨo/	/suo/
Pan Wuyun	/bio/	/suo/
Shao Rongfen	/bio/	/so/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/buə̆/	/sɔ/
Li Rong	/bio/	/so/
Wang Li	/bĭu/	/su/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱi̯u/	/suo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	fú	sū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fu4	sou1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-[p](r)a  s-ŋˤa/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ba  sŋaː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	扶	蘇
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	fú	sū
Middle Chinese	‹ bju ›	‹ su ›
Old Chinese	/*m-[p](r)a/	/*s-ŋˁa/
English	assist	revive
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	扶	蘇
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	3280	15937
Phonetic component	夫	魚
Rime group	魚	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	扶	蘇
Old Chinese	/*ba/	/*sŋaː/

Noun

扶蘇

1. (literary, archaic) a kind of tree
2. (literary, archaic, historical) shield on chariots

Verb

扶蘇

1. (literary) to assist

Proper noun

扶蘇

1. Fusu, the eldest son of Emperor Qin Shi Huang