See also: 辽西

Chinese edit

Liaoning; name of a dynasty west
trad. (遼西) 西
simp. (辽西) 西
anagram 西遼西辽

Pronunciation edit



Rime
Character 西
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (37) (16)
Final () (93) (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV IV
Fanqie
Baxter lew sej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/leu/ /sei/
Pan
Wuyun
/leu/ /sei/
Shao
Rongfen
/leu/ /sɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lɛw/ /sɛj/
Li
Rong
/leu/ /sei/
Wang
Li
/lieu/ /siei/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lieu/ /siei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
liáo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
liu4 sai1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 西
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ sej ›
Old
Chinese
/*s-nˁər/
English 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. 8090 13236
Phonetic
component
西
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1
Corresponding
MC rime
西
Old
Chinese
/*reːw/ /*sɯːl/

Proper noun edit

遼西

  1. area west of the Liao River
  2. (historical) Liaoxi (an ancient commandery in present day Hebei and Liaoning, China)
  3. () Liaoxi (a former province of China)

See also edit