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海棗

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Chinese

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ocean; sea jujube
trad. (海棗)
simp. (海枣)
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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (32) (13)
Final () (41) (89)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Baxter xojX tsawX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/hʌiX/ /t͡sɑuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/həiX/ /t͡sɑuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/xɒiX/ /t͡sɑuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/həjX/ /t͡sawX/
Li
Rong
/xᴀiX/ /t͡sɑuX/
Wang
Li
/xɒiX/ /t͡sɑuX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/xɑ̆iX/ /t͡sɑuX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
hǎi zǎo
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
hoi2 zou2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
hǎi zǎo
Middle
Chinese
‹ xojX › ‹ tsawX ›
Old
Chinese
/*m̥ˁəʔ/ (dialect *m̥ˁ- > x-) /*[ts]ˁuʔ/
English sea jujube

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 9283 16564
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*hmlɯːʔ/ /*ʔsuːʔ/

Noun

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海棗

  1. (literary) a kind of fruit in Chinese mythology
  2. (literary, figuratively) chimerical thing
  3. date palm (Phoenix dactylifera)

Synonyms

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