渭水

Chinese

		name of a river	water; river
trad. (渭水)		渭	水
simp. #(渭水)		渭	水

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Wèishuǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wai⁶ seoi²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Wèishuǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Wèishuěi
    • Wade–Giles: Wei⁴-shui³
    • Yale: Wèi-shwěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Weyshoei
    • Palladius: Вэйшуй (Vɛjšuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: wai⁶ seoi²
    • Yale: waih séui
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wai⁶ soey²
    • Guangdong Romanization: wei⁶ sêu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wɐi̯²² sɵy̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: hjw+jH sywijX

Rime
Character	渭	水
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	云 (35)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	微 (21)	脂 (18)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	于貴切	式軌切
Baxter	hjw+jH	sywijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɦʉiH/	/ɕˠiuɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/ɦʷɨiH/	/ɕʷᵚiX/
Shao Rongfen	/ɣiuəiH/	/ɕiuɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɦujH/	/ɕjwiX/
Li Rong	/ɣiuəiH/	/ɕjuiX/
Wang Li	/ɣĭwəiH/	/ɕwiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/we̯iH/	/ɕwiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wèi	shuǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wai6	seoi2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɢuds  qʰʷljilʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	水
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shuǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ sywijX ›
Old Chinese	/*s.turʔ/ (E dialect: *-r > *-j)
English	water; river
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	渭	水
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12946	11948
Phonetic component	胃	水
Rime group	隊	脂
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	胃	水
Old Chinese	/*ɢuds/	/*qʰʷljilʔ/

Proper noun

渭水

1. (archaic) the Wei River

Synonyms

• 渭河 (Wèihé) (modern-day)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
渭	水
い Hyōgaiji	すい Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [isɨᵝi]

Proper noun

渭(い)水(すい) • (Isui) 

1. the Wei River

Synonyms

• 渭河(いが) (Iga)