食口

Chinese

		eat; food; to feed eat; food; to feed; animal feed	mouth; (a measure word, for people, livestock or utensils)
trad. (食口)		食	口
simp. #(食口)		食	口

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shíkǒu

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˊ ㄎㄡˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shíkǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˊ ㄎㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shíhkǒu
    • Wade–Giles: shih²-kʻou³
    • Yale: shŕ-kǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyrkoou
    • Palladius: шикоу (šikou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩³⁵ kʰoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

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• Middle Chinese: zyik khuwX

Rime
Character	食	口
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	船 (27)	溪 (29)
Final (韻)	蒸 (134)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	乗力切	苦后切
Baxter	zyik	khuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʑɨk̚/	/kʰəuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʑɨk̚/	/kʰəuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʑiek̚/	/kʰəuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʑik̚/	/kʰəwX/
Li Rong	/d͡ʑiək̚/	/kʰuX/
Wang Li	/d͡ʑĭək̚/	/kʰəuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡ʑʰi̯ək̚/	/kʰə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shí	kǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sik6	hau2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mə-lək  kʰˤ(r)oʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦljɯɡ  kʰoːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	食	口
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shí	kǒu
Middle Chinese	‹ zyik ›	‹ khuwX ›
Old Chinese	/*mə-lək/	/*kʰˁ(r)oʔ/
English	eat	mouth
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	食	口
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	11477	7490
Phonetic component	食	口
Rime group	職	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime		口
Old Chinese	/*ɦljɯɡ/	/*kʰoːʔ/

Noun

食口

1. people living in a family without working
2. appetite (of livestock)

Korean

Hanja in this term
食	口

Noun

食口 • (sikgu) (hangeul 식구)

1. Hanja form^? of 식구 (“mouth to feed; family member”).