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顛沛

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Chinese

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inverted; jolt; top copious; abundant
trad. (顛沛)
simp. (颠沛)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial () (5) (1)
Final () (85) (25)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () IV I
Fanqie
Baxter ten pajH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ten/ /pɑiH/
Pan
Wuyun
/ten/ /pɑiH/
Shao
Rongfen
/tɛn/ /pɑiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/tɛn/ /pajH/
Li
Rong
/ten/ /pɑiH/
Wang
Li
/tien/ /pɑiH/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/tien/ /pɑiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
diān bèi
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
din1 bui3
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
diān
Middle
Chinese
‹ ten ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˁi[n]/
English top

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
Reading # 1/2 1/2
No. 17038 3287
Phonetic
component
巿
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 3
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*tiːn/ /*poːbs/

Adjective

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顛沛

  1. destitute
    Synonym: 顛狽 / 颠狈 (diānbèi)

Noun

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顛沛

  1. difficulty; hardship; trouble

Verb

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顛沛

  1. to fall
  2. (figurative) to be desperate; to fail in one's attempt