赤龍

Chinese

		red; scarlet; bare red; scarlet; bare; naked	dragon; imperial; surname
trad. (赤龍)		赤	龍
simp. (赤龙)		赤	龙

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chìlóng

  (Zhuyin): ㄔˋ ㄌㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cek³ lung⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chìlóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔˋ ㄌㄨㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chìhlóng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻih⁴-lung²
    • Yale: chr̀-lúng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyhlong
    • Palladius: чилун (čilun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹ lʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cek³ lung⁴
    • Yale: chek lùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsek⁸ lung⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: cég³ lung⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛːk̚³ lʊŋ²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhek ljowng

Rime
Character	赤	龍
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	昔 (123)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	昌石切	力鍾切
Baxter	tsyhek	ljowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰiᴇk̚/	/lɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/	/lioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰiæk̚/	/lioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰiajk̚/	/luawŋ/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiɛk̚/	/lioŋ/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭɛk̚/	/lĭwoŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯ɛk̚/	/li̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chi	lóng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cik1	lung4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[t-qʰ](r)Ak  [mə]-roŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰljaɡ  b·roŋ|mroːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	赤	龍
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chì	lóng
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyhek ›	‹ ljowng ›
Old Chinese	/*[t-qʰ](r)Ak/	/*[mə]-roŋ/
English	red	dragon
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	龍	龍
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
No.	1477	8436	8763
Phonetic component	赤	龍	尨
Rime group	鐸	東	東
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	尺	龍	厖
Old Chinese	/*kʰljaɡ/	/*b·roŋ/	/*mroːŋ/
Notes			同狵

Noun

赤龍

1. (Chinese mythology) red dragon
2. (figuratively) Emperor Gaozu of Han (Liu Bang)
3. (by extension) emperor
4. (figuratively) the sun