孑遺

Chinese

		alone; mosquito larvae; small	to lose; to leave behind
trad. (孑遺)		孑	遺
simp. (孑遗)		孑	遗

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiéyí

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄧˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiéyí
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄧˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiéyí
    • Wade–Giles: chieh²-i²
    • Yale: jyé-yí
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jyeyi
    • Palladius: цзеи (czei)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ³⁵ i³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kjet ywij

Rime
Character	孑	遺
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	薛 (83)	脂 (16)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	居列切	以追切
Baxter	kjet	ywij
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠiᴇt̚/	/jiuɪ/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚiɛt̚/	/jʷi/
Shao Rongfen	/kiæt̚/	/juɪ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kiat̚/	/jwi/
Li Rong	/kjɛt̚/	/ui/
Wang Li	/kĭɛt̚/	/jwi/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯ɛt̚/	/wi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jie	wéi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	git3	wai4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ked  lul/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	遺
Reading #	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yí
Middle Chinese	‹ ywij ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ](r)uj/
English	leave; reject
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	孑	遺
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	6435	4741
Phonetic component	孑	貴
Rime group	月	微
Rime subdivision	2	3
Corresponding MC rime	孑	惟
Old Chinese	/*ked/	/*lul/

Noun

孑遺

1. (literary) survivor; remnant population

   • 周餘黎民，靡有孑遺。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     周余黎民，靡有孑遗。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Zhōu yú límín, mǐ yǒu jiéyí. [Pinyin]

     Of the remnant of Zhou, among the black-haired people,
     There will not be half a man left.

2. (literary) remnant; leftover; remainder; rump; relict

   • 當世囂囂，非患儒之雞廉，患在位者之虎飽鷁咽，於求覽無所孑遺耳。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     当世嚣嚣，非患儒之鸡廉，患在位者之虎饱鹢咽，于求览无所孑遗耳。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: p. 73 BCE, Huan Kuan (桓寬) (editor). Discourses on Salt and Iron (《鹽鐵論》)

     Dāngshì xiāoxiāo, fēi huàn rú zhī jīlián, huàn zàiwèizhě zhī hǔbǎo yìyān, yú qiú lǎn wúsuǒ jiéyí ěr. [Pinyin]

     Now, the people of this world complain loudly, but not about the "chicken-like frugality" advocated by the Confucians. They do worry about the powerful lords, who have the appetite of a tiger but the throat of a waterfowl; who seek, seize, and want not a single thing left out of their grabbing paws.

Adjective

孑遺

1. (chiefly ecology) relictual; surviving; remaining

   孑遺物種／孑遗物种  ―  jiéyí wùzhǒng  ―  relictual species