Chinese edit

past; former
 
day; sun; date
day; sun; date; day of the month; Japan (abbrev.)
simp. and trad.
(昔日)

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (16) (38)
Final () (123) (48)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter sjek nyit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/siᴇk̚/ /ȵiɪt̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/siɛk̚/ /ȵit̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/siæk̚/ /ȵʑjet̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/siajk̚/ /ȵit̚/
Li
Rong
/siɛk̚/ /ȵiĕt̚/
Wang
Li
/sĭɛk̚/ /ȵʑĭĕt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/si̯ɛk̚/ /ȵʑi̯ĕt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sik1 jat6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjek › ‹ nyit ›
Old
Chinese
/*[s]Ak/ /*C.nik/
English in the past sun; day

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. 13309 10845
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sjaːɡ/ /*njiɡ/

Noun edit

昔日

  1. (literary) the old days; the past

Synonyms edit