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star; satellite; small amount
(a) night; constellation; lodge for the night
(a) night; constellation; lodge for the night; old; former
 
simp. and trad.
(星宿)
宿
 
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Rime
Character 宿
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial () (16) (16)
Final () (125) (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV III
Fanqie
Baxter seng sjuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/seŋ/ /sɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/seŋ/ /siuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɛŋ/ /siəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɛjŋ/ /suwH/
Li
Rong
/seŋ/ /siuH/
Wang
Li
/sieŋ/ /sĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/sieŋ/ /si̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
xīng xiù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sing1 sau3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 宿
Reading # 1/1 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
xīng xiù
Middle
Chinese
‹ seng › ‹ sjuwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-tsʰˁeŋ/ /*[s]uk-s/
English star "mansion" of the zodiac (where the moon is found on successive nights)

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 宿
Reading # 1/1 1/2
No. 11371 12104
Phonetic
component
宿
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*sleːŋ/ /*suɡs/
Notes

Noun

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星宿

  1. (archaic, astronomy) constellation
  2. (literary) the stars
  3. (dialectal) star

Synonyms

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  • (constellation): 星座 (xīngzuò)
  • (star):

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (星宿):

Proper noun

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星宿

  1. (Chinese astronomy) Star Mansion (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)

Synonyms

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