禽獸

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See also: 禽兽

Chinese

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birds; fowl beast; quadruped
trad. (禽獸)
simp. (禽兽)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (30) (26)
Final () (140) (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter gim syuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ɡˠiɪm/ /ɕɨuH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɡᵚim/ /ɕiuH/
Shao
Rongfen
/ɡiem/ /ɕiəuH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/gjim/ /ɕuwH/
Li
Rong
/ɡjəm/ /ɕiuH/
Wang
Li
/ɡĭĕm/ /ɕĭəuH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/gi̯əm/ /ɕi̯ə̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
qín shòu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
kam4 sau3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
qín qín shòu
Middle
Chinese
‹ gim › ‹ gim › ‹ syuwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[C.ɢ](r)[ə]m/ /*[C.ɢ](r)[ə]m/ /*s.tʰu(ʔ)-s/
English bird; animal catch, capture (wild) animal

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. 6607 11712
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡrɯm/ /*qʰljus/

Noun

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禽獸

  1. birds and animals
    Synonym: 鳥獸鸟兽 (niǎoshòu)
  2. beast; animal; creature
  3. (figurative) beast (cruel person)
    白天教授晚上禽獸 [MSC, trad.]
    白天教授晚上禽兽 [MSC, simp.]
    báitiān shì jiàoshòu, wǎnshang shì qínshòu [Pinyin]
    professor by day, beast by night

Derived terms

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