道不拾遺

Chinese

		direction; way; method direction; way; method; road; path; principle; truth; reason; skill; Tao (of Taoism); a measure word; to say; to speak; to talk	not; no	pick up; ten (fraud-proof)	to lose; to leave behind
trad. (道不拾遺)		道	不	拾	遺
simp. (道不拾遗)		道	不	拾	遗

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): dàobùshíyí

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄠˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˊ ㄧˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dou⁶ bat¹ sap⁶ wai⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: dàobùshíyí
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄠˋ ㄅㄨˋ ㄕˊ ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: dàobùshíhyí
    • Wade–Giles: tao⁴-pu⁴-shih²-i²
    • Yale: dàu-bù-shŕ-yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dawbushyryi
    • Palladius: даобушии (daobušii)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tɑʊ̯⁵¹⁻⁵³ pu⁵¹ ʂʐ̩³⁵ i³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dou⁶ bat¹ sap⁶ wai⁴
    • Yale: douh bāt sahp wàih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dou⁶ bat⁷ sap⁹ wai⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: dou⁶ bed¹ seb⁶ wei⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tou̯²² pɐt̚⁵ sɐp̚² wɐi̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dawX pjuw|pjuwX|pjut dzyip ywij

Rime
Character	道	不	不	不	拾	遺
Reading #	1/1	1/3	2/3	3/3	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	幫 (1)	常 (25)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	豪 (89)	尤 (136)	尤 (136)	文 (60)	侵 (141)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open	Closed	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	III	III	III	III	III
Fanqie	徒晧切	甫鳩切	方久切	分勿切	是執切	以追切
Baxter	dawX	pjuw	pjuwX	pjut	dzyip	ywij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑuX/	/pɨu/	/pɨuX/	/pɨut̚/	/d͡ʑiɪp̚/	/jiuɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑuX/	/piu/	/piuX/	/piut̚/	/d͡ʑip̚/	/jʷi/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑuX/	/piəu/	/piəuX/	/piuət̚/	/d͡ʑjep̚/	/juɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dawX/	/puw/	/puwX/	/put̚/	/d͡ʑip̚/	/jwi/
Li Rong	/dɑuX/	/piu/	/piuX/	/piuət̚/	/ʑiəp̚/	/ui/
Wang Li	/dɑuX/	/pĭəu/	/pĭəuX/	/pĭuət̚/	/ʑĭĕp̚/	/jwi/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑuX/	/pi̯ə̯u/	/pi̯ə̯uX/	/pi̯uət̚/	/ʑi̯əp̚/	/wi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dào	fōu	fǒu	fu	shí	wéi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dou6	fau1	fau2	fat1	sap6	wai4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[kə.l]ˤuʔ  pə  [d][ə]p  [ɢ](r)uj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'uːʔ  pɯ|pɯʔ|pɯ'  ɡjub  lul/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	道	不	拾	遺
Reading #	2/2	1/2	1/1	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dào	bù	shí	yí
Middle Chinese	‹ dawX ›	‹ pjuw ›	‹ dzyip ›	‹ ywij ›
Old Chinese	/*[kə.l]ˁuʔ/	/*pə/	/*[d][ə]p/	/*[ɢ](r)uj/
English	way	not	pick up, gather	leave; reject
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	道	不	不	不	拾	遺
Reading #	1/1	1/3	2/3	3/3	1/1	1/2
No.	11669	1025	1029	1048	5001	4741
Phonetic component	首	不	不	不	合	貴
Rime group	幽	之	之	物	緝	微
Rime subdivision	1	0	0	1	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	道	不	缶	弗	十	惟
Old Chinese	/*l'uːʔ/	/*pɯ/	/*pɯʔ/	/*pɯ'/	/*ɡjub/	/*lul/
Notes			象花柎與本同源	中古才促化

Idiom

道不拾遺

1. Synonym of 路不拾遺／路不拾遗 (lùbùshíyí, “no one pockets lost property on the road”)

   • 有些地方真個道不拾遺，夜不閉戶。 [MSC, trad.]
     有些地方真个道不拾遗，夜不闭户。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Yǒuxiē dìfāng zhēngè dàobùshíyí, yèbùbìhù. [Pinyin]

     In some places it is literally true that people do not take any articles left by the wayside and that doors are not bolted at night.