Chinese edit

 
spring (time); gay; joyful
spring (time); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life
society; group
simp. and trad.
(春社)

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (24) (25)
Final () (47) (100)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter tsyhwin dzyaeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/t͡ɕʰiuɪn/ /d͡ʑiaX/
Pan
Wuyun
/t͡ɕʰʷin/ /d͡ʑiaX/
Shao
Rongfen
/t͡ɕʰjuen/ /d͡ʑiaX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/cʰwin/ /d͡ʑiaX/
Li
Rong
/t͡ɕʰiuĕn/ /ʑiaX/
Wang
Li
/t͡ɕʰĭuĕn/ /ʑĭaX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/t͡ɕʰi̯uĕn/ /ʑi̯aX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
chūn shè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ceon1 se6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
chūn shè
Middle
Chinese
‹ tsyhwin › ‹ dzyæX ›
Old
Chinese
/*tʰun/ /*m-tʰAʔ/
English springtime sacrifice to the spirit of the soil

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. 12573 12497
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tʰjun/ /*ɦljaːʔ/
Notes

Noun edit

春社

  1. A festival in honor of the earth god, observed on the 5th day which begins with Yang earth () (see Sexagenary cycle), after lichun.

See also edit