險巇

Chinese

		danger(ous); rugged	mountain-gorge; ravine
trad. (險巇)		險	巇
simp. (险巇)		险	巇
alternative forms		嶮巇／崄巇 險戲／险戏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiǎnxī

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄢˇ ㄒㄧ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): him² hei¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎnxī
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄢˇ ㄒㄧ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎnsi
    • Wade–Giles: hsien³-hsi¹
    • Yale: syǎn-syī
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheanshi
    • Palladius: сяньси (sjanʹsi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ ɕi⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: him² hei¹
    • Yale: hím hēi
    • Cantonese Pinyin: him² hei¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: him² héi¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiːm³⁵ hei̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: xjemX xje

Rime
Character	險	巇
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	鹽 (154)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	虚檢切	許羈切
Baxter	xjemX	xje
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hˠiᴇmX/	/hˠiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/hᵚiɛmX/	/hᵚiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/xiæmX/	/xiɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hjiamX/	/hjiə̆/
Li Rong	/xjɛmX/	/xje/
Wang Li	/xĭɛmX/	/xǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/xi̯ɛmX/	/xie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiǎn	xī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	him2	hei1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰramʔ  qʰra/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	險	險
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiǎn	xiǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ xjæmX ›	‹ xjemX ›
Old Chinese	/*qʰr[a]mʔ/	/*qʰr[a]mʔ/
English	precipitous, dangerous	precipitous, dangerous
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	險	巇
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	10221	5196
Phonetic component	僉	虍
Rime group	談	魚
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	險	犧
Old Chinese	/*qʰramʔ/	/*qʰra/
Notes		見漢賦

Adjective

險巇

1. (literary, of roads) difficult and dangerous