Chinese

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end; extremity; item
end; extremity; item; port; to hold something level with both hands; to carry; regular
 
extremity
simp. and trad.
(端倪)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (5) (31)
Final () (62) (39)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () I IV
Fanqie
Baxter twan ngej
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/tuɑn/ /ŋei/
Pan
Wuyun
/tʷɑn/ /ŋei/
Shao
Rongfen
/tuɑn/ /ŋɛi/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/twan/ /ŋɛj/
Li
Rong
/tuɑn/ /ŋei/
Wang
Li
/tuɑn/ /ŋiei/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/tuɑn/ /ŋiei/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
duān
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
dyun1 ngai4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
duān
Middle
Chinese
‹ twan › ‹ ngej ›
Old
Chinese
/*tˁor/ /*ŋˁe/
English tip (n.) young and weak

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 # 1/1 1/1
No. 2500 2736
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
3 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*toːn/ /*ŋeː/

Noun

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端倪

  1. sign; inkling; clue
  2. (literary) boundary; limit; bound

Synonyms

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  • (sign):
  • (boundary):

Derived terms

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Verb

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端倪

  1. (literary) to predict (the development of); to forecast

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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Sino-Xenic (端倪):
  • Japanese: 端倪(たんげい) (tangei)

Japanese

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Kanji in this term
たん
Grade: S
げい
Hyōgai
kan'on

Pronunciation

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Noun

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(たん)(げい) (tangei

  1. conjecturing
  NODES
eth 1