初度

Chinese

		initial; first; beginning initial; first; beginning; junior; basic	capacity; degree; standard
simp. and trad. (初度)		初	度

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chūdù

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄨ ㄉㄨˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chūdù
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨ ㄉㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chudù
    • Wade–Giles: chʻu¹-tu⁴
    • Yale: chū-dù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuduh
    • Palladius: чуду (čudu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵⁵ tu⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tsrhjo duH

Rime
Character	初	度
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	初 (19)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	楚居切	徒故切
Baxter	tsrhjo	duH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃʰɨʌ/	/duoH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂʰiɔ/	/duoH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃʰiɔ/	/doH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂʰɨə̆/	/dɔH/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃʰiɔ/	/doH/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃʰĭo/	/duH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂʰi̯wo/	/dʱuoH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chū	dù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	co1	dou6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ʰra  [d]ˤak-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sʰra  daːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	初	度
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chū	dù
Middle Chinese	‹ tsrhjo ›	‹ duH ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]ʰra/	/*[d]ˁak-s/
English	beginning	measure (n.)
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	度
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	1589	11902
Phonetic component	初	庶
Rime group	魚	暮
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	初	渡
Old Chinese	/*sʰra/	/*daːɡs/
Notes		說文庶省聲，實亦石聲

Noun

初度 (literary)

1. the day first born

   • 皇覽揆余初度兮，肇錫余以嘉名。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     皇览揆余初度兮，肇锡余以嘉名。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Verses of Chu, 4^th century BCE – 2^nd century CE

     Huáng lǎnkuí yú chūdù xī, zhào cì yú yǐ jiā míng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

2. (by extension) birthday
3. first time

Synonyms

(birthday):

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• 千春 (qiānchūn) (literary, of an elderly person)
• 千秋 (qiānqiū) (honorific, of an elderly person)
• 壽誕 / 寿诞 (shòudàn) (of an elderly person)
• 壽辰 / 寿辰 (shòuchén) (of an elderly person)
• 生日 (shēngrì)
• 生朝 (shēngzhāo) (literary)
• 生辰 (shēngchén) (literary)
• 誕辰 / 诞辰 (dànchén) (honorific)
• 賤降 / 贱降 (jiànjiàng) (literary, humble)

(first time):

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• 初次 (chūcì)
• 第一次 (dì-yī cì)
• 頭一次 / 头一次
• 首度 (shǒudù)
• 首次 (shǒucì)