Chinese edit

expanse of water; ooze; barking ocean; foreign
simp. and trad.
(汪洋)

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/3 1/2
Initial () (34) (36)
Final () (102) (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter 'wang yang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔwɑŋ/ /jɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔʷɑŋ/ /jiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔuɑŋ/ /iɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔwaŋ/ /jɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/ʔuɑŋ/ /iaŋ/
Wang
Li
/uɑŋ/ /jĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʔwɑŋ/ /i̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
wāng yáng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
wong1 joeng4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
wāng yáng
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔwang › ‹ yang ›
Old
Chinese
/*qʷˁaŋ/ /*ɢ(r)aŋ/
English vast; pool "great expanse of water"

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 # 1/3 2/2
No. 12715 14536
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qʷaːŋ/ /*laŋ/

Adjective edit

汪洋

  1. (of a body of water) vast; boundless
  2. (figurative) magnanimous; generous

Derived terms edit