Chinese edit

 
discipline; age; era
discipline; age; era; period; order; record
 
head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link
head rope of a fishing net; guiding principle; key link; (taxonomy) class; outline; programme
trad. (紀綱)
simp. (纪纲)
alternative forms 起工
anagram 綱紀纲纪

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (28) (28)
Final () (19) (101)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter kiX kang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kɨX/ /kɑŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/kɨX/ /kɑŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/kieX/ /kɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kɨX/ /kaŋ/
Li
Rong
/kiəX/ /kɑŋ/
Wang
Li
/kĭəX/ /kɑŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kiX/ /kɑŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gei2 gong1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kiX › ‹ kang ›
Old
Chinese
/*k(r)əʔ/ /*kˁaŋ/
English leading thread guiding rope of net

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. 5766 3716
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kɯʔ/ /*klaːŋ/

Noun edit

紀綱

  1. (literary) rule; law
  2. (Southern Min) convention; general rule; what is normal

Synonyms edit

  • (rule):

Derived terms edit