一家之言

Chinese

		one; single; a one; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.)	home; family; ‑ist home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools	's; him/her/it; this	to speak; to say; talk to speak; to say; talk; word
simp. and trad. (一家之言)		一	家	之	言

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yījiāzhīyán

  (Zhuyin): ㄧ ㄐㄧㄚ ㄓ ㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jat¹ gaa¹ zi¹ jin⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yījiāzhīyán [Phonetic: yìjiāzhīyán]
    • Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄐㄧㄚ ㄓ ㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yijiajhihyán
    • Wade–Giles: i¹-chia¹-chih¹-yen²
    • Yale: yī-jyā-jr̄-yán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ijiajyyan
    • Palladius: ицзячжиянь (iczjačžijanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ jɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jat¹ gaa¹ zi¹ jin⁴
    • Yale: yāt gā jī yìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jat⁷ gaa¹ dzi¹ jin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: yed¹ ga¹ ji¹ yin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐt̚⁵ kaː⁵⁵ t͡siː⁵⁵ jiːn²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: 'jit kae tsyi ngjon

Rime
Character	一	家	之	言
Reading #	1/1	1/1	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	見 (28)	章 (23)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	質 (48)	麻 (98)	之 (19)	元 (65)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	II	III	III
Fanqie	於悉切	古牙切	止而切	語軒切
Baxter	'jit	kae	tsyi	ngjon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔiɪt̚/	/kˠa/	/t͡ɕɨ/	/ŋɨɐn/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔit̚/	/kᵚa/	/t͡ɕɨ/	/ŋiɐn/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔjet̚/	/ka/	/t͡ɕie/	/ŋiɐn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔit̚/	/kaɨ/	/cɨ/	/ŋɨan/
Li Rong	/ʔiĕt̚/	/ka/	/t͡ɕiə/	/ŋiɐn/
Wang Li	/ĭĕt̚/	/ka/	/t͡ɕĭə/	/ŋĭɐn/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔi̯ĕt̚/	/ka/	/t͡ɕi/	/ŋɨ̯ɐn/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yi	jiā	zhī	yán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jat1	gaa1	zi1	jin4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔi[t]  kˤra  tə  ŋa[n]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qliɡ  kraː  tjɯ  ŋan/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	一	家	之	言
Reading #	1/1	1/1	2/2	3/4
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yī	jiā	zhī	yán
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjit ›	‹ kæ ›	‹ tsyi ›	‹ ngjon ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔi[t]/	/*kˁra/	/*tə/	/*ŋa[n]/
English	one	household	(3p object pronoun; attributive particle)	speak; speech
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	一	家	之	言
Reading #	1/1	1/1	1/1	1/1
No.	14833	5919	17188	14271
Phonetic component	一	家	之	言
Rime group	質	魚	之	元
Rime subdivision	2	0	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	一	嘉	之	言
Old Chinese	/*qliɡ/	/*kraː/	/*tjɯ/	/*ŋan/

Idiom

一家之言

1. statements of a school; (merely) one school of thought

   • 序略，以拾遺補蓺，成一家之言，厥協六經異傳，整齊百家雜語。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     序略，以拾遗补蓺，成一家之言，厥协六经异传，整齐百家杂语。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Xù lüè, yǐ shíyí bǔyì, chéng yījiāzhīyán, jué xié liùjīng yìzhuàn, zhěngqí bǎijiā záyǔ. [Pinyin]

     With these brief notes, I hope that I may add to the lost parts of the Canons and Arts, establish another school of scholarship, thereby provide accompaniment to the voluminous commentaries on the Six Classics, and consolidate the diverse teachings by the previous masters.

2. (often humble) one's own thought, opinion, interpretation, etc. (implying bias, incompleteness, etc.)