市井

Chinese

		market; city	warn; well
simp. and trad. (市井)		市	井

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shìjǐng

  (Zhuyin): ㄕˋ ㄐㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): si⁵ zeng²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhī-chéng / chhǐ-chéng

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ci⁶ zên²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shìjǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕˋ ㄐㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shìhjǐng
    • Wade–Giles: shih⁴-ching³
    • Yale: shr̀-jǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyhjiing
    • Palladius: шицзин (šiczin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵¹ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: si⁵ zeng²
    • Yale: síh jéng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: si⁵ dzeng²
    • Guangdong Romanization: xi⁵ zéng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /siː¹³ t͡sɛːŋ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhī-chéng
    • Tâi-lô: tshī-tsíng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: chixzeang
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰi²²⁻²¹ t͡siɪŋ⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhǐ-chéng
    • Tâi-lô: tshǐ-tsíng
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰi²² t͡siɪŋ⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ci⁶ zên²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshĭ tséⁿ
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰi³⁵⁻¹¹ t͡sẽ⁵²/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyiX tsjengX

Rime
Character	市	井
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	之 (19)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	時止切	子郢切
Baxter	dzyiX	tsjengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨX/	/t͡siᴇŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑɨX/	/t͡siɛŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑieX/	/t͡siæŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑɨX/	/t͡siajŋX/
Li Rong	/ʑiəX/	/t͡siɛŋX/
Wang Li	/ʑĭəX/	/t͡sĭɛŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑiX/	/t͡si̯ɛŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shì	jǐng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si6	zing2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.[d]əʔ  C.tseŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djɯʔ  skeŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	市	井
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shì	jǐng
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyiX ›	‹ tsjengX ›
Old Chinese	/*C.[d]əʔ/	/*C.tseŋʔ/
English	market (n.)	well (n.)
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	市	井
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	11611	6852
Phonetic component	市	井
Rime group	之	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	市	井
Old Chinese	/*djɯʔ/	/*skeŋʔ/
Notes		丼注今體甲金文爲型初文

Noun

市井

1. (literary) marketplace; town
2. (literary) merchant
3. vulgar people; unrefined people

Derived terms

• 市井之人
• 市井之徒 (shìjǐngzhītú)
• 市井小人

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
市	井
し Grade: 2	せい Grade: 4
kan’on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɕise̞ː]

Noun

市(し)井(せい) • (shisei) 

1. the street; the town

   市井(しせい)の人(ひと　)に聞(き)きました。

   Shisei no hito ni kikimashita.

   I asked people on the streets.