庠序

Chinese

		asylum for the aged; school	order; sequence; preface
simp. and trad. (庠序)		庠	序

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiángxù

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˊ ㄒㄩˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiángxù
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˊ ㄒㄩˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siángsyù
    • Wade–Giles: hsiang²-hsü⁴
    • Yale: syáng-syù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyangshiuh
    • Palladius: сянсюй (sjansjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ³⁵ ɕy⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: zjang zjoX

Rime
Character	庠	序
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	似羊切	徐吕切
Baxter	zjang	zjoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨɐŋ/	/zɨʌX/
Pan Wuyun	/ziɐŋ/	/ziɔX/
Shao Rongfen	/ziɑŋ/	/ziɔX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨaŋ/	/zɨə̆X/
Li Rong	/ziaŋ/	/ziɔX/
Wang Li	/zĭaŋ/	/zĭoX/
Bernard Karlgren	/zi̯aŋ/	/zi̯woX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiáng	xù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	coeng4	zeoi6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-[ɢ]aŋ  [sə.l]aʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ljaŋ  ljaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	庠	序
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiáng	xù
Middle Chinese	‹ zjang ›	‹ zjoX ›
Old Chinese	/*s-[ɢ]aŋ/	/*[sə.l]aʔ/
English	school	walls at side of palace
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	庠	序
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	14527	15724
Phonetic component	羊	予
Rime group	陽	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	詳
Old Chinese	/*ljaŋ/	/*ljaʔ/

Noun

庠序

1. (archaic) school