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Chinese[edit]
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to flow; to spread; to circulate to flow; to spread; to circulate; to move
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to appear; to look; form to appear; to look; form; shape
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trad. (流形)
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流
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形
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simp. #(流形)
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流
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形
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Etymology[edit]
- manifold
- Coined by Jiang Zehan in 1938.
Pronunciation[edit]
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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流
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形
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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liú
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xíng
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Middle Chinese
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‹ ljuw ›
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‹ heng ›
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Old Chinese
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/*ru/
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/*[ɢ]ˁeŋ/
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English
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flow (v.)
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form, shape
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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.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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流
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形
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Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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No.
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8335
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6862
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Phonetic component
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流
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井
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Rime group
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幽
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耕
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Rime subdivision
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1
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0
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Corresponding MC rime
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劉
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㓝
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Old Chinese
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/*ru/
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/*ɡeːŋ/
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Notes
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或爲毓省聲
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流形
- (geometry) manifold
- (literary) things of different and changing shape; everything
流形
- (literary) (of things) to change and take shape