頃之

Chinese

		100 mu; a short while ago; a 'ching' (unit of area) 100 mu; a short while ago; a 'ching' (unit of area); approx. (with dates); a short while	's; him/her/it; this
trad. (頃之)		頃	之
simp. (顷之)		顷	之

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): qǐngzhī

  (Zhuyin): ㄑㄧㄥˇ ㄓ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): king² zi¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: qǐngzhī
    • Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄥˇ ㄓ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: cǐngjhih
    • Wade–Giles: chʻing³-chih¹
    • Yale: chǐng-jr̄
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chiingjy
    • Palladius: цинчжи (cinčži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: king² zi¹
    • Yale: kíng jī
    • Cantonese Pinyin: king² dzi¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: king² ji¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰɪŋ³⁵ t͡siː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: khjwiengX tsyi

Rime
Character	頃	之
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	溪 (29)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	清 (122)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	去潁切	止而切
Baxter	khjwiengX	tsyi
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kʰwiᴇŋX/	/t͡ɕɨ/
Pan Wuyun	/kʰʷiɛŋX/	/t͡ɕɨ/
Shao Rongfen	/kʰiuæŋX/	/t͡ɕie/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kʰwiajŋX/	/cɨ/
Li Rong	/kʰiuɛŋX/	/t͡ɕiə/
Wang Li	/kʰĭwɛŋX/	/t͡ɕĭə/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kʰi̯wɛŋX/	/t͡ɕi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	qiǒng	zhī
Expected Cantonese Reflex	hing2	zi1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ʷʰeŋʔ  tə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kʰʷeŋʔ  tjɯ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	頃	之	之
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qǐng	zhī	zhī
Middle Chinese	‹ khjwiengX ›	‹ tsyi ›	‹ tsyi ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ʷʰeŋʔ/	/*tə/	/*tə/
English	interval, short while	go to	(3p object pronoun; attributive particle)
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	頃	之
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	10508	17188
Phonetic component	頃	之
Rime group	耕	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	頃	之
Old Chinese	/*kʰʷeŋʔ/	/*tjɯ/

Adverb

頃之

1. (Classical) shortly after; in a moment

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 不久 (“soon; before long”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		頃之, 頃刻, 少頃, 俄而, 既而, 已而
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		不久
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	不久, 沒多久
	Taiwan	不久, 沒多久
	Singapore	不久, 沒多久
Cantonese	Guangzhou	冇幾耐, 冇耐
	Hong Kong	冇幾耐, 冇耐
	Singapore (Guangfu)	冇幾耐
Hakka	Meixian	無幾久
	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	無幾久
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	無幾久
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	無幾久
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	無幾久
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	無幾久
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	無幾久
Southern Min	Xiamen	無偌久
	Quanzhou	無偌久
	Zhangzhou	無偌久
	Taipei	無偌久
	Kaohsiung	無偌久
	Singapore (Hokkien)	無偌久
	Manila (Hokkien)	無偌久
	Shantou	唔久, 無若久
Wu	Wenzhou	不一下兒過