祿位

Chinese

		good fortune; official salary	position; location; (measure word for persons) position; location; (measure word for persons); place; seat
trad. (祿位)		祿	位
simp. (禄位)		禄	位

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lùwèi

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨˋ ㄨㄟˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): luk⁶ wai⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lùwèi
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨˋ ㄨㄟˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lùwèi
    • Wade–Giles: lu⁴-wei⁴
    • Yale: lù-wèi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luhwey
    • Palladius: лувэй (luvɛj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu⁵¹⁻⁵³ weɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: luk⁶ wai⁶
    • Yale: luhk waih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: luk⁹ wai⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: lug⁶ wei⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lʊk̚² wɐi̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: luwk hwijH

Rime
Character	祿	位
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	屋 (3)	脂 (18)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	盧谷切	于愧切
Baxter	luwk	hwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/luk̚/	/ɦˠiuɪH/
Pan Wuyun	/luk̚/	/ɦʷᵚiH/
Shao Rongfen	/luk̚/	/ɣiuɪH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ləwk̚/	/ɦjwiH/
Li Rong	/luk̚/	/ɣjuiH/
Wang Li	/luk̚/	/ɣwiH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/luk̚/	/wiH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lù	wèi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	luk6	wai6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[r]ˤok  [ɢ]ʷrəp-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*roːɡ  ɢʷrɯbs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祿	位
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lù	wèi
Middle Chinese	‹ luwk ›	‹ hwijH ›
Old Chinese	/*[r]ˁok/	/*[ɢ]ʷrəp-s/ (< *ɢʷəʔ-rəp-s ?)
English	blessing	standing, position
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	祿	位
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	8541	7865
Phonetic component	录	立
Rime group	屋	內
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	禄	位
Old Chinese	/*roːɡ/	/*ɢʷrɯbs/

Noun

祿位

1. (literary) salary and peerage; official salary and position
   1. (literary, specifically) official position

Synonyms

• (official position):

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• 官位 (guānwèi)
• 官秩 (guānzhì) (archaic)
• 官職 / 官职 (guānzhí)