昆彌

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (昆彌)		昆	彌
simp. (昆弥)		昆	弥

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): kūnmí

  (Zhuyin): ㄎㄨㄣ ㄇㄧˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: kūnmí
    • Zhuyin: ㄎㄨㄣ ㄇㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: kunmí
    • Wade–Giles: kʻun¹-mi²
    • Yale: kwūn-mí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: kuenmi
    • Palladius: куньми (kunʹmi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰu̯ən⁵⁵ mi³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kwon mjie

Rime
Character	昆	彌
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	魂 (55)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	古渾切	武移切
Baxter	kwon	mjie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kuən/	/miᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/kuon/	/miɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/kuən/	/mjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kwən/	/miə̆/
Li Rong	/kuən/	/mie/
Wang Li	/kuən/	/mǐe/
Bernard Karlgren	/kuən/	/mie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	gūn	mí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwan1	mei4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤu[n]  m-nə[r]|m-nə[r]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kuːn  mnel/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	昆	彌	彌
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	kūn	mí	mí
Middle Chinese	‹ kwon ›	‹ mjie ›	‹ mjieX ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁu[n]/	/*m-nə[r]/	/*m-nə[r]ʔ/
English	elder brother	to complete	stop
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	昆	彌
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	7519	2808
Phonetic component	昆	爾
Rime group	文	歌
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	昆	彌
Old Chinese	/*kuːn/	/*mnel/
Notes	金文象日下二人比肩同作， 造意同眾而省文， 如夕月異語共義轉註例

Noun

昆彌

1. (historical) the Wusun title for king

Synonyms

• 昆莫 (kūnmò)