沅陵

Chinese

		name of a river	mound; tomb; hill mound; tomb; hill; mountain
trad. (沅陵)		沅	陵
simp. #(沅陵)		沅	陵

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Yuánlíng

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄢˊ ㄌㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyun⁴ ling⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Yuánlíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄢˊ ㄌㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Yuánlíng
    • Wade–Giles: Yüan²-ling²
    • Yale: Ywán-líng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Yuanling
    • Palladius: Юаньлин (Juanʹlin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛn³⁵ liŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyun⁴ ling⁴
    • Yale: yùhn lìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyn⁴ ling⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yun⁴ ling⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːn²¹ lɪŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjwon ling

Rime
Character	沅	陵
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	元 (66)	蒸 (133)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	愚袁切	力膺切
Baxter	ngjwon	ling
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋʉɐn/	/lɨŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋʷiɐn/	/lɨŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiuɐn/	/lieŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋuan/	/liŋ/
Li Rong	/ŋiuɐn/	/liəŋ/
Wang Li	/ŋĭwɐn/	/lĭəŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋi̯wɐn/	/li̯əŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuán	líng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyun4	ling4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋon  rɯŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	陵
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	líng
Middle Chinese	‹ ling ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]əŋ/
English	mound, hill
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	沅	陵
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	16146	8246
Phonetic component	元	夌
Rime group	元	蒸
Rime subdivision	3	0
Corresponding MC rime	元	陵
Old Chinese	/*ŋon/	/*rɯŋ/

Proper noun

沅陵

1. (～縣) Yuanling (a county of Huaihua, Hunan, China)
2. (～鎮) Yuanling (a town, the county seat of Yuanling County, Huaihua, Hunan, China)