蕞爾

Chinese

		assemble; small	thus; so; like that thus; so; like that; you; thou
trad. (蕞爾)		蕞	爾
simp. (蕞尔)		蕞	尔

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zuì'ěr

  (Zhuyin): ㄗㄨㄟˋ ㄦˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zeoi³ ji⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zuì'ěr
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄟˋ ㄦˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zuèi-ěr
    • Wade–Giles: tsui⁴-êrh³
    • Yale: dzwèi-ěr
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzueyeel
    • Palladius: цзуйэр (czujɛr)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡su̯eɪ̯⁵¹ ˀɤɻ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zeoi³ ji⁵
    • Yale: jeui yíh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoey³ ji⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêu³ yi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɵy̯³³ jiː¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzwajH nyeX

Rime
Character	蕞	爾
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	日 (38)
Final (韻)	泰 (26)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	才外切	兒氏切
Baxter	dzwajH	nyeX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡zuɑiH/	/ȵiᴇX/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡zʷɑiH/	/ȵiɛX/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zuɑiH/	/ȵʑjɛX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡zwajH/	/ȵiə̆X/
Li Rong	/d͡zuɑiH/	/ȵieX/
Wang Li	/d͡zuɑiH/	/ȵʑǐeX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/d͡zʱuɑiH/	/ȵʑie̯X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zuì	ěr
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zeoi6	ji5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*zoːds  njelʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	爾	爾	爾
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ěr	ěr	ěr
Middle Chinese	‹ nejX ›	‹ nyeX ›	‹ nyeX ›
Old Chinese	/*nˁ[ə][r]ʔ/	/*n[ə][r]ʔ/	/*n[ə][r]ʔ/
English	numerous	(adv. suffix)	you(r)
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	蕞	爾
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	10647	2817
Phonetic component	取	爾
Rime group	祭	歌
Rime subdivision	3	2
Corresponding MC rime	蕞	爾
Old Chinese	/*zoːds/	/*njelʔ/
Notes		說文尒聲，甲金文象檷初文， 取林義光說

Adjective

蕞爾

1. (literary, of an area) tiny; very small

Derived terms

• 蕞爾彈丸 / 蕞尔弹丸