盛暑

Chinese

		flourishing; to hold; contain flourishing; to hold; contain; to ladle; pick up with a utensil; surname	heat; hot weather; summer heat
simp. and trad. (盛暑)		盛	暑

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shèngshǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄥˋ ㄕㄨˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shèngshǔ
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄥˋ ㄕㄨˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shèngshǔ
    • Wade–Giles: shêng⁴-shu³
    • Yale: shèng-shǔ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shenqshuu
    • Palladius: шэншу (šɛnšu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɤŋ⁵¹ ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyengH syoX

Rime
Character	盛	暑
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	清 (121)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	承正切	舒吕切
Baxter	dzyengH	syoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiᴇŋH/	/ɕɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɛŋH/	/ɕiɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑiæŋH/	/ɕiɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑiajŋH/	/ɕɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/ʑiɛŋH/	/ɕiɔX/
Wang Li	/ʑĭɛŋH/	/ɕĭoX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʑi̯ɛŋH/	/ɕi̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shèng	shǔ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sing6	syu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]eŋ-s  s-tʰaʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djeŋs  hjaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	盛	暑
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shèng	shǔ
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyengH ›	‹ syoX ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]eŋ-s/	/*s-tʰaʔ/
English	full, abundant	heat
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	盛	暑
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	1425	17014
Phonetic component	成	者
Rime group	耕	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	盛
Old Chinese	/*djeŋs/	/*hjaʔ/

Noun

盛暑

1. midsummer; height of summer; very hot weather

Synonyms

• 盛夏 (shèngxià)