疊燮

Chinese

		fold up; repeat	harmony; harmonize
trad. (疊燮)		疊	燮
simp. (叠燮)		叠	燮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): diéxiè

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄧㄝˊ ㄒㄧㄝˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: diéxiè
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄧㄝˊ ㄒㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: diésiè
    • Wade–Giles: tieh²-hsieh⁴
    • Yale: dyé-syè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dyeshieh
    • Palladius: десе (dese)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ti̯ɛ³⁵ ɕi̯ɛ⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: dep sep

Rime
Character	疊	燮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	怗 (158)	怗 (158)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	IV
Fanqie	徒協切	蘇協切
Baxter	dep	sep
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dep̚/	/sep̚/
Pan Wuyun	/dep̚/	/sep̚/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛp̚/	/sɛp̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛp̚/	/sɛp̚/
Li Rong	/dep̚/	/sep̚/
Wang Li	/diep̚/	/siep̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/dʱiep̚/	/siep̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	dié	xie
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dip6	sip3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*lˤ[i]p  s.qʰˤ(r)ip/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	疊	燮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dié	xiè
Middle Chinese	‹ dep ›	‹ sep ›
Old Chinese	/*lˁ[i]p/	/*s.qʰˁ(r)ip/
English	double, accumulate	harmonious
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.

Verb

疊燮

1. Alternative form of 蹀躞 (diéxiè, “to walk in a mincing gait; to walk with small steps”)