乘舟

Chinese

		ride; mount; make use of ride; mount; make use of; take advantage of; multiply; to avail of; to ride	boat
trad. (乘舟)		乘	舟
simp. #(乘舟)		乘	舟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chéngzhōu

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄥˊ ㄓㄡ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chéngzhōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄥˊ ㄓㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chéngjhou
    • Wade–Giles: chʻêng²-chou¹
    • Yale: chéng-jōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: cherngjou
    • Palladius: чэнчжоу (čɛnčžou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Middle Chinese: zying tsyuw

Rime
Character	乘	舟
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	船 (27)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	食陵切	職流切
Baxter	zying	tsyuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʑɨŋ/	/t͡ɕɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/ʑɨŋ/	/t͡ɕiu/
Shao Rongfen	/ʑieŋ/	/t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʑiŋ/	/cuw/
Li Rong	/d͡ʑiəŋ/	/t͡ɕiu/
Wang Li	/d͡ʑĭəŋ/	/t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡ʑʰi̯əŋ/	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shéng	zhōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sing4	zau1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə.ləŋ  tu/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦljɯŋ  tjɯw/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	乘	舟
Reading #	1/3	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chéng	zhōu
Middle Chinese	‹ zying ›	‹ tsyuw ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə.ləŋ/	/*tu/
English	ride (v.)	boat
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	乘	舟
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	1452	17504
Phonetic component	乘	舟
Rime group	蒸	幽
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	繩	周
Old Chinese	/*ɦljɯŋ/	/*tjɯw/

Verb

乘舟

1. (literary) to take a boat

Synonyms

• 乘船 (chéngchuán)