貴霜

Chinese

		expensive; noble; your (name) expensive; noble; your (name); precious	frost
trad. (貴霜)		貴	霜
simp. (贵霜)		贵	霜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Guìshuāng

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄟˋ ㄕㄨㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gwai³ soeng¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Guìshuāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄟˋ ㄕㄨㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Guèishuang
    • Wade–Giles: Kuei⁴-shuang¹
    • Yale: Gwèi-shwāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Gueyshuang
    • Palladius: Гуйшуан (Gujšuan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ku̯eɪ̯⁵¹ ʂu̯ɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gwai³ soeng¹
    • Yale: gwai sēung
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gwai³ soeng¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: guei³ sêng¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʷɐi̯³³ sœːŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kjw+jH srjang

Rime
Character	貴	霜
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	微 (21)	陽 (105)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	居胃切	色莊切
Baxter	kjw+jH	srjang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʉiH/	/ʃɨɐŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʷɨiH/	/ʃiɐŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kiuəiH/	/ʃiɑŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kujH/	/ʂɨaŋ/
Li Rong	/kiuəiH/	/ʃiaŋ/
Wang Li	/kĭwəiH/	/ʃĭaŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kwe̯iH/	/ʂi̯aŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	guì	shuāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gwai3	song1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kuj-s  [s]raŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kluds  sraŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	貴	霜
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	guì	shuāng
Middle Chinese	‹ kjw+jH ›	‹ srjang ›
Old Chinese	/*kuj-s/	/*[s]raŋ/
English	precious; expensive	hoar-frost
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	貴	霜
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	4747	13587
Phonetic component	貴	相
Rime group	隊	陽
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	貴	霜
Old Chinese	/*kluds/	/*sraŋ/
Notes	從蕢之古文臾得聲

Proper noun

貴霜

1. Kushan