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west weapon
simp. and trad.
(西戎)
西
 
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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character 西
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (16) (38)
Final () (39) (2)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV III
Fanqie
Baxter sej nyuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sei/ /ȵɨuŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/sei/ /ȵiuŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/sɛi/ /ȵʑiuŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/sɛj/ /ȵuwŋ/
Li
Rong
/sei/ /ȵiuŋ/
Wang
Li
/siei/ /ȵʑĭuŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/siei/ /ȵʑi̯uŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
róng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sai1 jung4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 西
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
róng
Middle
Chinese
‹ sej › ‹ nyuwng ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-nˁər/ /*nuŋ/
English west foreigners in the west

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 西
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 13236 10849
Phonetic
component
西
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
西
Old
Chinese
/*sɯːl/ /*njuŋ/

Proper noun

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西戎

  1. (historical) “Western Barbarians” (non-Chinese ethnic groups living to China's west)

See also

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  • 南蠻南蛮 (Nánmán, “southern barbarians”)
  • 北狄 (Běidí, “northern barbarians”)
  • 東夷东夷 (Dōngyí, “eastern barbarians”)