稱病

Chinese

		to call; to praise; to weigh to call; to praise; to weigh; to estimate; to consider; to address; to name; to say; commend; steelyard; balanced; to fit; well-off; suitable	ailment; illness; disease ailment; illness; disease; fall ill; sick; defect
trad. (稱病)		稱	病
simp. (称病)		称	病

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): chēngbìng

  (Zhuyin): ㄔㄥ ㄅㄧㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): cing¹ beng⁶, cing¹ bing⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chēngbìng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄥ ㄅㄧㄥˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: chengbìng
    • Wade–Giles: chʻêng¹-ping⁴
    • Yale: chēng-bìng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chengbinq
    • Palladius: чэнбин (čɛnbin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰɤŋ⁵⁵ piŋ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: cing¹ beng⁶, cing¹ bing⁶
    • Yale: chīng behng, chīng bihng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tsing¹ beng⁶, tsing¹ bing⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: qing¹ béng⁶, qing¹ bing⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ pɛːŋ²²/, /t͡sʰɪŋ⁵⁵ pɪŋ²²/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyhing bjaengH

Rime
Character	稱	病
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	昌 (24)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	蒸 (133)	庚 (111)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	處陵切	皮命切
Baxter	tsyhing	bjaengH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕʰɨŋ/	/bˠiæŋH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʰɨŋ/	/bᵚiaŋH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕʰieŋ/	/biaŋH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cʰiŋ/	/biajŋH/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕʰiəŋ/	/biɐŋH/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕʰĭəŋ/	/bĭɐŋH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕʰi̯əŋ/	/bʱi̯ɐŋH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chēng	bìng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	cing1	bing6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tʰəŋ  [b]raŋ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tʰjɯŋ  braŋs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	稱	病
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chēng	bìng
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyhing ›	‹ bjængH ›
Old Chinese	/*tʰəŋ/	/*[b]raŋ-s/
English	weigh; evaluate; call	extreme illness
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	稱	病
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	1402	898
Phonetic component	爯	丙
Rime group	蒸	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	稱	病
Old Chinese	/*tʰjɯŋ/	/*braŋs/

Verb

稱病

1. to plead illness; to use one's illness as an excuse