步輦

Chinese

		a step; a pace; walk a step; a pace; walk; march; stages in a process	emperor's carriage
trad. (步輦)		步	輦
simp. (步辇)		步	辇

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùniǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄋㄧㄢˇ

• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pō͘-lián

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùniǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄋㄧㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùniǎn
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-nien³
    • Yale: bù-nyǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buhnean
    • Palladius: бунянь (bunjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ ni̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pō͘-lián
    • Tâi-lô: pōo-lián
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poxliern
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pɔ²²⁻²¹ liɛn⁵³/
    • IPA (Singapore): /pɔ²²⁻²¹ liɛn⁴²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pɔ³³⁻¹¹ liɛn⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ⁴¹⁻²² liɛn⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɔ³³⁻²¹ liɛn⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: buH ljenX

Rime
Character	步	輦
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	薄故切	力展切
Baxter	buH	ljenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buoH/	/liᴇnX/
Pan Wuyun	/buoH/	/liɛnX/
Shao Rongfen	/boH/	/ljænX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɔH/	/lianX/
Li Rong	/boH/	/liɛnX/
Wang Li	/buH/	/lĭɛnX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱuoH/	/li̯ɛnX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bù	liǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bou6	lin5

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*mə-bˤa-s  [r][a][n]ʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*baːs  renʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	步	輦
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bù	niǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ buH ›	‹ ljenX ›
Old Chinese	/*mə-bˁa-s/	/*[r][a][n]ʔ/
English	step	cart drawn by men
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	步	輦
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	1051	9484
Phonetic component	步	輦
Rime group	魚	元
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	捕	輦
Old Chinese	/*baːs/	/*renʔ/

Noun

步輦

1. (literary, post-Qin) sedan carriage

Verb

步輦

1. (literary, post-Qin) to take a sedan carriage
2. (Southern Min) to go on foot; to walk

Synonyms

• (go on foot):

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• 串 (literary, or in compounds)
• 履行 (lǚxíng) (literary)
• 徒步 (túbù)
• 步 (bù) (literary, or in compounds)
• 步履 (bùlǚ) (literary)
• 步行 (bùxíng)
• 步趨 / 步趋 (bùqū)
• 行動 / 行动 (xíngdòng)
• 行步 (xíngbù) (literary)
• 行走 (xíngzǒu)
• 走動 / 走动 (zǒudòng)
• 走路 (zǒulù)
• 走道 (zǒudào)