鮥子

Chinese

			child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight
trad. (鮥子)		鮥	子
simp. (𱇪子)		𱇪	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): luòzi

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄨㄛˋ ˙ㄗ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: luòzi
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄨㄛˋ ˙ㄗ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: luòzi̊h
    • Wade–Giles: lo⁴-tzŭ⁵
    • Yale: lwò-dz
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: luoh.tzy
    • Palladius: лоцзы (loczy)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lu̯ɔ⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/

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• Middle Chinese: lak tsiX

Rime
Character	鮥	子
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	鐸 (103)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	盧各切	即里切
Baxter	lak	tsiX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɑk̚/	/t͡sɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/lɑk̚/	/t͡sɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/lɑk̚/	/t͡sieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lak̚/	/t͡sɨX/
Li Rong	/lɑk̚/	/t͡siəX/
Wang Li	/lɑk̚/	/t͡sĭəX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lɑk̚/	/t͡siX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	luò	zǐ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	lok6	zi2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɡ·raːɡ  ʔslɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	子	子
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zǐ	zǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ tsiX ›	‹ tsiX ›
Old Chinese	/*[ts]əʔ/	/*tsəʔ/
English	1st earthly branch	child; gentleman, master
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	鮥	子
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	3877	17857
Phonetic component	各	子
Rime group	鐸	之
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	落	子
Old Chinese	/*ɡ·raːɡ/	/*ʔslɯʔ/

Noun

鮥子

1. (ancient dialectal) (small) sturgeon

Synonyms

• 鱘魚／鲟鱼 (xúnyú)