臧否

Chinese

		surname; good; lucky	clogged; evil; to negate clogged; evil; to negate; to deny; not
simp. and trad. (臧否)		臧	否

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zāngpǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄤ ㄆㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zong¹ pei²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zāngpǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄤ ㄆㄧˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zangpǐ
    • Wade–Giles: tsang¹-pʻi³
    • Yale: dzāng-pǐ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzangpii
    • Palladius: цзанпи (czanpi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɑŋ⁵⁵ pʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zong¹ pei²
    • Yale: jōng péi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzong¹ pei²
    • Guangdong Romanization: zong¹ péi²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔːŋ⁵⁵ pʰei̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsang bijX

Rime
Character	臧	否
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	唐 (101)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	則郎切	符鄙切
Baxter	tsang	bijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɑŋ/	/bˠiɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɑŋ/	/bᵚiX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sɑŋ/	/biɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡saŋ/	/bjiX/
Li Rong	/t͡sɑŋ/	/bjiX/
Wang Li	/t͡sɑŋ/	/biX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡sɑŋ/	/bʱiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zāng	bì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zong1	bei6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ˤaŋ

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsaːŋ  brɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	臧
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zāng
Middle Chinese	‹ tsang ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ˁaŋ/
English	good
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	臧	否
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	10277	1022
Phonetic component	爿	不
Rime group	陽	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	臧	否
Old Chinese	/*ʔsaːŋ/	/*brɯʔ/
Notes	甲文從臣從戈， 象以戈刺俘目爲奴（楊樹達說），後乃加爿聲爲轉註字

Noun

臧否

1. (literary) good and bad; good or bad

   • 於乎小子，未知臧否。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Yúhū xiǎozǐ, wèizhī zāngfǒu. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 沙汰事物之臧否，覈實古人之邪正。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     沙汰事物之臧否，核实古人之邪正。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: Ge Hong, Baopuzi, 4^th century CE

     Shātài shìwù zhī zāngfǒu, héshí gǔrén zhī xiézhèng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

• 善惡／善恶 (shàn'è)
• 好壞／好坏 (hǎohuài)
• 好歹 (hǎodǎi)
• 好䆀 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
• 好賴／好赖 (hǎolài)
• 是非 (shìfēi)
• 長短／长短 (chángduǎn)
• 黑白 (hēibái) (figurative)

 

Verb

臧否

1. (literary) to judge (people); to appraise

Synonyms

• 褒貶／褒贬 (bāobiǎn)

Derived terms

• 陟罰臧否／陟罚臧否 (zhìfázāngpǐ)