廋辭

Chinese

		to search; be concealed	bid farewell; diction; resign bid farewell; diction; resign; say goodbye; take leave; decline
trad. (廋辭)		廋	辭
simp. (廋辞)		廋	辞

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sōucí

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄡ ㄘˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sōucí
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄡ ㄘˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: soucíh
    • Wade–Giles: sou¹-tzʻŭ²
    • Yale: sōu-tsź
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: soutsyr
    • Palladius: соуцы (soucy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /soʊ̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰz̩³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: srjuw zi

Rime
Character	廋	辭
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	所鳩切	似兹切
Baxter	srjuw	zi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃɨu/	/zɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃiu/	/zɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃiəu/	/zie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂuw/	/zɨ/
Li Rong	/ʃiu/	/ziə/
Wang Li	/ʃĭəu/	/zĭə/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʂi̯ə̯u/	/zi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shōu	sí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sau1	ci4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sru  ljɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	辭
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cí
Middle Chinese	‹ zi ›
Old Chinese	/*sə.lə/
English	words
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	廋	辭
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	12083	1684
Phonetic component	叟	辭
Rime group	幽	之
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	𢯱	詞
Old Chinese	/*sru/	/*ljɯ/

Noun

廋辭

1. (literary) puzzle
2. (literary) enigmatic language