褊小

Chinese

		narrow; urgent	small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young
trad. (褊小)		褊	小
simp. #(褊小)		褊	小

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biǎnxiǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢˇ ㄒㄧㄠˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biǎnxiǎo [Phonetic: biánxiǎo]
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢˇ ㄒㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: biǎnsiǎo
    • Wade–Giles: pien³-hsiao³
    • Yale: byǎn-syǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: beansheau
    • Palladius: бяньсяо (bjanʹsjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻³⁵ ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

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• Middle Chinese: pjienX sjewX

Rime
Character	褊	小
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	仙 (77)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	方緬切	私兆切
Baxter	pjienX	sjewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/piᴇnX/	/siᴇuX/
Pan Wuyun	/piɛnX/	/siɛuX/
Shao Rongfen	/pjænX/	/sjæuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pianX/	/siawX/
Li Rong	/piɛnX/	/siɛuX/
Wang Li	/pĭɛnX/	/sĭɛuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pi̯ɛnX/	/si̯ɛuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biǎn	xiǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bin2	siu2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*penʔ  smewʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	小
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ sjewX ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]ewʔ/
English	small
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	褊	小
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	710	13705
Phonetic component	扁	小
Rime group	元	宵
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	褊	小
Old Chinese	/*penʔ/	/*smewʔ/
Notes		甲金文象沙而指小， 指事字

Adjective

褊小

1. (literary) small and narrow (e.g. of an area)

   • 齊國雖褊小，吾何愛一牛？即不忍其觳觫，若無罪而就死地，故以羊易之也。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     齐国虽褊小，吾何爱一牛？即不忍其觳觫，若无罪而就死地，故以羊易之也。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Qí guó suī biǎnxiǎo, wú hé ài yī niú? Jí bùrěn qí húsù, ruò wúzuì ér jiù sǐdì, gù yǐ yáng yì zhī yě. [Pinyin]

     But though Qi be a small and narrow State, how should I grudge one ox? Indeed it was because I could not bear its frightened appearance, as if it were an innocent person going to the place of death, that therefore I changed it for a sheep.