土崩

Chinese

		earth; dust; rural earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian	collapse; fall into ruins
simp. and trad. (土崩)		土	崩

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tǔbēng

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄨˇ ㄅㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tǔbēng
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄨˇ ㄅㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tǔbeng
    • Wade–Giles: tʻu³-pêng¹
    • Yale: tǔ-bēng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tuubeng
    • Palladius: тубэн (tubɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ pɤŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: thuX pong

Rime
Character	土	崩
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	登 (129)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	他魯切	北滕切
Baxter	thuX	pong
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰuoX/	/pəŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰuoX/	/pəŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰoX/	/pəŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰɔX/	/pəŋ/
Li Rong	/tʰoX/	/pəŋ/
Wang Li	/tʰuX/	/pəŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/tʰuoX/	/pəŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tǔ	bēng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tou2	bang1

Verb

土崩

1. (literary) to collapse and be ruined beyond repair

Derived terms

• 土崩瓦解 (tǔbēngwǎjiě)