Chinese edit

friend bureaucrat
simp. and trad.
(朋僚)
alternative forms 朋寮

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2
Initial () (3) (37) (37)
Final () (129) (93) (91)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open
Division () I IV III
Fanqie
Baxter bong lew ljewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bəŋ/ /leu/ /liᴇuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/bəŋ/ /leu/ /liɛuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/bəŋ/ /leu/ /ljæuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/bəŋ/ /lɛw/ /liawX/
Li
Rong
/bəŋ/ /leu/ /liɛuX/
Wang
Li
/bəŋ/ /lieu/ /lĭɛuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱəŋ/ /lieu/ /li̯ɛuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
péng liáo liǎo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
pang4 liu4 liu5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
péng liáo
Middle
Chinese
‹ bong › ‹ lew ›
Old
Chinese
/*[b]ˁəŋ/ /*[r]ˁew/
English set of cowries; friend office or position

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 1/2 2/2
No. 9663 8084 8095
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 2 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*bɯːŋ/ /*rewʔ/ /*reːw/

Noun edit

朋僚

  1. (literary) colleague