Chinese edit

 
old; aged; venerable
old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)
brood over; old woman; protect
trad. (老嫗)
simp. (老妪)

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (37) (34)
Final () (89) (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter lawX 'juH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɑuX/ /ʔɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun
/lɑuX/ /ʔioH/
Shao
Rongfen
/lɑuX/ /ʔioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lawX/ /ʔuə̆H/
Li
Rong
/lɑuX/ /ʔioH/
Wang
Li
/lɑuX/ /ĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lɑuX/ /ʔi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lǎo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
lou5 jyu3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
lǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ lawX ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.rˁuʔ/
English old

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. 7666 10615
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ruːʔ/ /*qos/

Noun edit

老嫗

  1. (literary) old woman
  2. (Jixi Huizhou) wife

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit