朔月

Chinese

		beginning; first day of lunar month	moon; month
trad. (朔月)		朔	月
simp. #(朔月)		朔	月
anagram		月朔

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shuòyuè

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨㄛˋ ㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): sok³ jyut⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shuòyuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨㄛˋ ㄩㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shuòyuè
    • Wade–Giles: shuo⁴-yüeh⁴
    • Yale: shwò-ywè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shuohyueh
    • Palladius: шоюэ (šojue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ɥɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: sok³ jyut⁶
    • Yale: sok yuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: sok⁸ jyt⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sog³ yud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɔːk̚³ jyːt̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: sraewk ngjwot

Rime
Character	朔	月
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	覺 (10)	月 (68)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	II	III
Fanqie	所角切	魚厥切
Baxter	sraewk	ngjwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠʌk̚/	/ŋʉɐt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚɔk̚/	/ŋʷiɐt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃɔk̚/	/ŋiuɐt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂaɨwk̚/	/ŋuat̚/
Li Rong	/ʃɔk̚/	/ŋiuɐt̚/
Wang Li	/ʃɔk̚/	/ŋĭwɐt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʂɔk̚/	/ŋi̯wɐt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shuo	yuè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sok3	jyut6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-ŋrak  [ŋ]ʷat/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sŋraːɡ  ŋod/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	朔	月
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shuò	yuè
Middle Chinese	‹ sræwk ›	‹ ngjwot ›
Old Chinese	/*s-ŋrak/	/*[ŋ]ʷat/
English	1st day of month	moon, month
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	朔	月
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9468	16319
Phonetic component	屰	月
Rime group	鐸	月
Rime subdivision	0	3
Corresponding MC rime	朔	月
Old Chinese	/*sŋraːɡ/	/*ŋod/

Noun

朔月

1. new moon
2. the first day of the lunar month

Synonyms

• 朔 (shuò)
• (new moon): 新月 (xīnyuè), 月缺 (yuèquē); (literary) 兔缺 (tùquē)