徂落

Chinese

		to go; to reach	to fall; to drop (behind); leave behind
trad. (徂落)		徂	落
simp. #(徂落)		徂	落
alternative forms		殂落

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): cúluò

  (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨˊ ㄌㄨㄛˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: cúluò
    • Zhuyin: ㄘㄨˊ ㄌㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cúluò
    • Wade–Giles: tsʻu²-lo⁴
    • Yale: tsú-lwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tswuluoh
    • Palladius: цуло (culo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu³⁵ lu̯ɔ⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dzu lak

Rime
Character	徂	落
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	鐸 (103)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	昨胡切	盧各切
Baxter	dzu	lak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zuo/	/lɑk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zuo/	/lɑk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zo/	/lɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zɔ/	/lak̚/
Li Rong	/d͡zo/	/lɑk̚/
Wang Li	/d͡zu/	/lɑk̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱuo/	/lɑk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	cú	luò
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cou4	lok6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[dz]ˤa  kə.rˤak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*zaː  ɡ·raːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	徂	落
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	cú	luò
Middle Chinese	‹ dzu ›	‹ lak ›
Old Chinese	/*[dz]ˁa/	/*kə.rˁak/
English	advance, go to	fall (v.)
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	徂	落
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	10405	3880
Phonetic component	且	各
Rime group	魚	鐸
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	徂	落
Old Chinese	/*zaː/	/*ɡ·raːɡ/

Verb

徂落

1. (literary) to die; to pass away; to decease
2. (literary) to wither; to decline; to fall