西南夷

Chinese

		southwest	safe; to raze; to exterminate safe; to raze; to exterminate; barbarian
simp. and trad. (西南夷)		西南	夷

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Xīnányí

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ ㄋㄢˊ ㄧˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Xīnányí
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ ㄋㄢˊ ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Sinányí
    • Wade–Giles: Hsi¹-nan²-i²
    • Yale: Syī-nán-yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shinanyi
    • Palladius: Синаньи (Sinanʹi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi⁵⁵ nän³⁵ i³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sej nom yij

Rime
Character	西	南	夷
Reading #	1/1	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	泥 (8)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	齊 (39)	覃 (159)	脂 (15)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	I	III
Fanqie	先稽切	那含切	以脂切
Baxter	sej	nom	yij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sei/	/nʌm/	/jiɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/sei/	/nəm/	/ji/
Shao Rongfen	/sɛi/	/nɒm/	/jɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/sɛj/	/nəm/	/ji/
Li Rong	/sei/	/nᴀm/	/i/
Wang Li	/siei/	/nɒm/	/ji/
Bernhard Karlgren	/siei/	/năm/	/i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xī	nán	yí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sai1	naam4	ji4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-nˤər  nˤ[ə]m  ləj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sɯːl  nuːm  lil/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	西	南	夷	夷
Reading #	1/1	1/1	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī	nán	yí	yí
Middle Chinese	‹ sej ›	‹ nom ›	‹ yij ›	‹ yij ›
Old Chinese	/*s-nˁər/	/*nˁ[ə]m/	/*ləj/	/*ləj/
English	west	south	level, peaceful	foreigner (especially to the east)
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	西	南	夷
Reading #	1/1	1/1	1/1
No.	13236	9355	14862
Phonetic component	西	南	夷
Rime group	微	侵	脂
Rime subdivision	1	2	1
Corresponding MC rime	西	南	姨
Old Chinese	/*sɯːl/	/*nuːm/	/*lil/

Proper noun

西南夷

1. (historical) "Southwestern Barbarians" (non-Han ethnic groups living in present-day Guizhou, Yunnan and southwestern Sichuan)