月朔

Chinese

		moon; month	beginning; first day of lunar month
trad. (月朔)		月	朔
simp. #(月朔)		月	朔
anagram		朔月

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yuèshuò

  (Zhuyin): ㄩㄝˋ ㄕㄨㄛˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jyut⁶ sok³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yuèshuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄩㄝˋ ㄕㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yuèshuò
    • Wade–Giles: yüeh⁴-shuo⁴
    • Yale: ywè-shwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yuehshuoh
    • Palladius: юэшо (juešo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɥɛ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂu̯ɔ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jyut⁶ sok³
    • Yale: yuht sok
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jyt⁹ sok⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: yud⁶ sog³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jyːt̚² sɔːk̚³/

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• Middle Chinese: ngjwot sraewk

Rime
Character	月	朔
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	生 (21)
Final (韻)	月 (68)	覺 (10)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	II
Fanqie	魚厥切	所角切
Baxter	ngjwot	sraewk
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋʉɐt̚/	/ʃˠʌk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋʷiɐt̚/	/ʃᵚɔk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋiuɐt̚/	/ʃɔk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋuat̚/	/ʂaɨwk̚/
Li Rong	/ŋiuɐt̚/	/ʃɔk̚/
Wang Li	/ŋĭwɐt̚/	/ʃɔk̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ŋi̯wɐt̚/	/ʂɔk̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yuè	shuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jyut6	sok3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ŋ]ʷat  s-ŋrak/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋod  sŋraːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	月	朔
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yuè	shuò
Middle Chinese	‹ ngjwot ›	‹ sræwk ›
Old Chinese	/*[ŋ]ʷat/	/*s-ŋrak/
English	moon, month	1st day of month
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	月	朔
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	16319	9468
Phonetic component	月	屰
Rime group	月	鐸
Rime subdivision	3	0
Corresponding MC rime	月	朔
Old Chinese	/*ŋod/	/*sŋraːɡ/

Noun

月朔

1. the first day of the lunar month
2. (literary, obsolete) a month