赤烏

Chinese

		red; scarlet; bare red; scarlet; bare; naked	a crow; black; not a crow; black; not; empty; void
trad. (赤烏)		赤	烏
simp. (赤乌)		赤	乌

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chìwū

  (Zhuyin): ㄔˋ ㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cek³ wu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chìwū
    • Zhuyin: ㄔˋ ㄨ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chìhwu
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih⁴-wu¹
    • Yale: chr̀-wū
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyhu
    • Palladius: чиу (čiu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹ u⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cek³ wu¹
    • Yale: chek wū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsek⁸ wu¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: cég³ wu¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛːk̚³ wuː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhek 'u

Rime
Character	赤	烏
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)	模 (23)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	昌石切	哀都切
Baxter	tsyhek	'u
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰiᴇk̚/	/ʔuo/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/	/ʔuo/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰiæk̚/	/ʔo/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰiajk̚/	/ʔɔ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/	/ʔo/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭɛk̚/	/u/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯ɛk̚/	/ʔuo/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chi	wū
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cik1	wu1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t-qʰ](r)Ak  [ʔ]ˤa|qˤa|ʔˤa/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰljaɡ  qaː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	赤	烏	烏	烏
Reading #	1/1	1/3	2/3	3/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chì	wū	wū	wū
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyhek ›	‹ ʔu ›	‹ ʔu ›	‹ ʔu ›
Old Chinese	/*[t-qʰ](r)Ak/	/*[ʔ]ˁa/	/*qˁa/	/*ʔˁa/
English	red	oh!	crow, raven; black	烏桓, 烏丸 Wūhuán: Avars (W. Hàn)
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	赤	烏
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	1477	13077
Phonetic component	赤	烏
Rime group	鐸	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	尺	烏
Old Chinese	/*kʰljaɡ/	/*qaː/

Noun

赤烏

1. A legendary auspicious bird.
2. (literary, figuratively) sun