臨淄

Chinese

		to face; to overlook; to arrive to face; to overlook; to arrive; to be (just) about to; just before	black; name of a river
trad. (臨淄)		臨	淄
simp. (临淄)		临	淄

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Línzī

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄗ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): lam⁴ zi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Línzī
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄣˊ ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Línzih
    • Wade–Giles: Lin²-tzŭ¹
    • Yale: Lín-dz̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Lintzy
    • Palladius: Линьцзы (Linʹczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lin³⁵ t͡sz̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: lam⁴ zi¹
    • Yale: làhm jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: lam⁴ dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: lem⁴ ji¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɐm²¹ t͡siː⁵⁵/

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• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*b·rɯms  ʔsrɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	臨
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	lín
Middle Chinese	‹ lim ›
Old Chinese	/*(p.)rum/
English	look down at
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	臨	淄
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	9803	17821
Phonetic component	品	甾
Rime group	侵	之
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	臨	葘
Old Chinese	/*b·rɯms/	/*ʔsrɯ/

Proper noun

臨淄

1. (historical) Linzi (capital of the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, in present-day Zibo)
2. (～區) Linzi District (a district of Zibo, Shandong, China)