西甌

Chinese

		west	bowl; cup
trad. (西甌)		西	甌
simp. (西瓯)		西	瓯

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Xī'ōu

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ ㄡ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Xī'ōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ ㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Si-ou
    • Wade–Giles: Hsi¹-ou¹
    • Yale: Syī-ōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shiou
    • Palladius: Сиоу (Siou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ ˀoʊ̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sej 'uw

Rime
Character	西	甌
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	I
Fanqie	先稽切	烏侯切
Baxter	sej	'uw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sei/	/ʔəu/
Pan Wuyun	/sei/	/ʔəu/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛi/	/ʔəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛj/	/ʔəw/
Li Rong	/sei/	/ʔu/
Wang Li	/siei/	/əu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/siei/	/ʔə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī	ōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sai1	au1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɯːl  qoː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	西
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī
Middle Chinese	‹ sej ›
Old Chinese	/*s-nˁər/
English	west
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	西	甌
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	13236	10586
Phonetic component	西	區
Rime group	微	侯
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	西	謳
Old Chinese	/*sɯːl/	/*qoː/

Proper noun

西甌

1. (historical) Xi Ou (a branch of the Baiyue that inhabited present-day Guangxi)

See also

• 東甌／东瓯 (Dōng'ōu)
• 甌越／瓯越 (Ōuyuè)