弱水

Chinese

		weak; feeble; young weak; feeble; young; inferior	water; river
simp. and trad. (弱水)		弱	水

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Ruòshuǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨㄛˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Ruòshuǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨㄛˋ ㄕㄨㄟˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Ruòshuěi
    • Wade–Giles: Jo⁴-shui³
    • Yale: Rwò-shwěi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Ruohshoei
    • Palladius: Жошуй (Žošuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐu̯ɔ⁵¹ ʂu̯eɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

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• Middle Chinese: nyak sywijX

Rime
Character	弱	水
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	日 (38)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)	脂 (18)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	而灼切	式軌切
Baxter	nyak	sywijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ȵɨɐk̚/	/ɕˠiuɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/ȵiɐk̚/	/ɕʷᵚiX/
Shao Rongfen	/ȵʑiɑk̚/	/ɕiuɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ȵɨak̚/	/ɕjwiX/
Li Rong	/ȵiak̚/	/ɕjuiX/
Wang Li	/ȵʑĭak̚/	/ɕwiX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȵʑi̯ak̚/	/ɕwiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ruò	shuǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	joek6	seoi2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*newk  s.turʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*njewɢ  qʰʷljilʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	弱	水
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ruò	shuǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ nyak ›	‹ sywijX ›
Old Chinese	/*newk/	/*s.turʔ/ (E dialect: *-r > *-j)
English	weak	water; river
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	弱	水
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	10947	11948
Phonetic component	弱	水
Rime group	藥	脂
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	若	水
Old Chinese	/*njewɢ/	/*qʰʷljilʔ/

Proper noun

弱水

1. Ruo Shui (a river in Gansu and Inner Mongolia, China)

Synonyms

• 額濟納河／额济纳河

Derived terms

• 弱水三千，只取一瓢飲／弱水三千，只取一瓢饮 (ruòshuǐsānqiān, zhǐ qǔ yīpiáo yǐn)