初吉

Chinese

		initial; first; beginning initial; first; beginning; junior; basic	lucky; Jilin Province (abbrev.)
simp. and trad. (初吉)		初	吉
Literally: “auspicious in the beginning”.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chūjí

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨ ㄐㄧˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chūjí
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨ ㄐㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chují
    • Wade–Giles: chʻu¹-chi²
    • Yale: chū-jí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chujyi
    • Palladius: чуцзи (čuczi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ t͡ɕi³⁵/
    • Homophones:

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• Middle Chinese: tsrhjo kjit

Rime
Character	初	吉
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	初 (19)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	質 (48)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	楚居切	居質切
Baxter	tsrhjo	kjit
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃʰɨʌ/	/kiɪt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂʰiɔ/	/kit̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃʰiɔ/	/kjet̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂʰɨə̆/	/kit̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃʰiɔ/	/kiĕt̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃʰĭo/	/kĭĕt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂʰi̯wo/	/ki̯ĕt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chū	ji
Expected Cantonese Reflex	co1	gat1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ʰra  C.qi[t]/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰra  klid/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	初	吉
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chū	jí
Middle Chinese	‹ tsrhjo ›	‹ kjit ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ʰra/	/*C.qi[t]/ (*C.q- > *k-, escaping palatalization)
English	beginning	auspicious
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	初	吉
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	1589	5692
Phonetic component	初	吉
Rime group	魚	質
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	初	吉
Old Chinese	/*sʰra/	/*klid/
Notes		甲文象供品在口表神佑吉利

Noun

初吉

1. (archaic) first day in a traditional lunar calendar month

   • 皇帝二載秋，閏八月初吉。 [Literary Chinese, trad.]
     皇帝二载秋，闰八月初吉。 [Literary Chinese, simp.]

     From: c. 757 CE, 杜甫,《北征》(March Northward)

     Huángdì èr zǎi qiū, rùnbāyuè chūjí. [Pinyin]

     on the first day of the intercalary eighth month in the second year of this Reign [18 September 757]

Synonyms

• 朔日 (shuòrì)

Coordinate terms

• 既望 (jìwàng)
• 既生霸 (jìshēngpò)
• 既死霸 (jìsǐpò)