歲星

See also: 岁星

Chinese

		year (in reference to divisions of the Jovian orbit)	star; heavenly body
trad. (歲星)		歲	星
simp. (岁星)		岁	星

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Suìxīng

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨㄟˋ ㄒㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi³ sing¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Suìxīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨㄟˋ ㄒㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Suèising
    • Wade–Giles: Sui⁴-hsing¹
    • Yale: Swèi-syīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Sueyshing
    • Palladius: Суйсин (Sujsin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su̯eɪ̯⁵¹ ɕiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi³ sing¹
    • Yale: seui sīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey³ sing¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu³ xing¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯³³ sɪŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sjwejH seng

Rime
Character	歲	星
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	祭 (36)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	相銳切	桑經切
Baxter	sjwejH	seng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siuᴇiH/	/seŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/sʷiɛiH/	/seŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/siuæiH/	/sɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/swiajH/	/sɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/siuɛiH/	/seŋ/
Wang Li	/sĭwɛiH/	/sieŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si̯wɛiH/	/sieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	suì	xīng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seoi3	sing1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-qʷʰat-s  s-tsʰˤeŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sqʰʷads  sleːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	歲	星
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	suì	xīng
Middle Chinese	‹ sjwejH ›	‹ seng ›
Old Chinese	/*s-qʷʰat-s/	/*s-tsʰˁeŋ/
English	year	star
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	歲	星
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	12165	11371
Phonetic component	歲	生
Rime group	祭	耕
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime		星
Old Chinese	/*sqʰʷads/	/*sleːŋ/
Notes	甲金文戉分化字， 說文戌聲非	説文曐或體

Proper noun

歲星

1. (historical astronomy) Jupiter

Synonyms

• 木星 (Mùxīng)

See also

• 地支 (dìzhī), based on Jupiter's duodecennial orbit