秉政

Chinese

		to grasp; hold; maintain	political; politics; government
simp. and trad. (秉政)		秉	政

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǐngzhèng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥˇ ㄓㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bing² zing³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǐngzhèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥˇ ㄓㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǐngjhèng
    • Wade–Giles: ping³-chêng⁴
    • Yale: bǐng-jèng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biingjenq
    • Palladius: бинчжэн (binčžɛn)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bing² zing³
    • Yale: bíng jing
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bing² dzing³
    • Guangdong Romanization: bing² jing³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɪŋ³⁵ t͡sɪŋ³³/

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• Middle Chinese: pjaengX tsyengH

Rime
Character	秉	政
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	兵永切	之盛切
Baxter	pjaengX	tsyengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠiæŋX/	/t͡ɕiᴇŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚiaŋX/	/t͡ɕiɛŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/piaŋX/	/t͡ɕiæŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piajŋX/	/ciajŋH/
Li Rong	/piɐŋX/	/t͡ɕiɛŋH/
Wang Li	/pĭɐŋX/	/t͡ɕĭɛŋH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯ɐŋX/	/t͡ɕi̯ɛŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǐng	zhèng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bing2	zing3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*praŋʔ  teŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*praŋʔ  tjeŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	秉	政
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bǐng	zhèng
Middle Chinese	‹ pjængX ›	‹ tsyengH ›
Old Chinese	/*praŋʔ/	/*teŋ-s/
English	grasp	government
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	秉	政
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	899	17177
Phonetic component	秉	正
Rime group	陽	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	丙	政
Old Chinese	/*praŋʔ/	/*tjeŋs/

Verb

秉政

1. (literary) to hold power; to govern; to rule

   • 春秋之後，陪臣秉政。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     春秋之后，陪臣秉政。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Chūnqiū zhīhòu, péichén bǐngzhèng. [Pinyin]

     (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Synonyms

• (literary) 柄政 (bǐngzhèng)
• 執政／执政 (zhízhèng)