南昌

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Chinese

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south(ern) prosperity
abundance
simp. and trad.
(南昌)
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Etymology

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Attested in the Book of Han as the name of a county and the seat of Yuzhang Commandery (豫章, a commandery in present-day Jiangxi) since no later than 2 CE.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (8) (24)
Final () (159) (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter nom tsyhang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nʌm/ /t͡ɕʰɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/nəm/ /t͡ɕʰiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/nɒm/ /t͡ɕʰiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nəm/ /cʰɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/nᴀm/ /t͡ɕʰiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/nɒm/ /t͡ɕʰĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/năm/ /t͡ɕʰi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nán chāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
naam4 coeng1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nán
Middle
Chinese
‹ nom ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˁ[ə]m/
English south

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 9355 1249
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*nuːm/ /*tʰjaŋ/

Proper noun

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南昌

  1. () Nanchang (a prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Jiangxi, China)
  2. () Nanchang (a county of Nanchang, Jiangxi, China)
  3. () Nanchang (a village in Wanquan, Honghu, Jingzhou, Hubei, China)

Synonyms

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  • (city): 豫章 (Yùzhāng) (archaic)

Derived terms

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