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哀哉

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Chinese

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sorrow; grief; pity
sorrow; grief; pity; to grieve for; to pity; to lament
 
(exclamatory or interrog. part.)
simp. and trad.
(哀哉)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (34) (13)
Final () (41) (41)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Baxter 'oj tsoj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ʔʌi/ /t͡sʌi/
Pan
Wuyun
/ʔəi/ /t͡səi/
Shao
Rongfen
/ʔɒi/ /t͡sɒi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ʔəj/ /t͡səj/
Li
Rong
/ʔᴀi/ /t͡sᴀi/
Wang
Li
/ɒi/ /t͡sɒi/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/ʔɑ̆i/ /t͡sɑ̆i/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
āi zāi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
oi1 zoi1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
āi zāi zāi
Middle
Chinese
‹ ʔoj › ‹ tsoj › ‹ tsoj ›
Old
Chinese
/*ʔˁəj/ /*[ts]ˁə/ /*[ts]ˁə/
English to pity; sad begin (particle)

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. 14835 16490
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*qɯːl/ /*ʔslɯː/

Interjection

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哀哉

  1. (Classical) How sad!

Derived terms

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
かな(しい)
Grade: S
かな
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 哀哉 – see the following entry: かなしいかな

(The following entry is uncreated: かなしいかな.)