自刎

Chinese

		from; self; oneself from; self; oneself; since	cut across (throat)
simp. and trad. (自刎)		自	刎

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zìwěn

  (Zhuyin): ㄗˋ ㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶ man⁵
• Southern Min (Teochew, Peng'im): ze⁶ mug⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zìwěn
    • Zhuyin: ㄗˋ ㄨㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zìhwǔn
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ⁴-wên³
    • Yale: dz̀-wěn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyhwoen
    • Palladius: цзывэнь (czyvɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵¹ wən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi⁶ man⁵
    • Yale: jih máhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶ man⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji⁶ men⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²² mɐn¹³/
• Southern Min
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ze⁶ mug⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsṳ̆ muk
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɯ³⁵⁻¹¹ muk̚²/

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• Middle Chinese: dzijH mjunX

Rime
Character	自	刎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	明 (4)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	疾二切	武粉切
Baxter	dzijH	mjunX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ziɪH/	/mɨunX/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ziH/	/miunX/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zjɪH/	/miuənX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ziH/	/munX/
Li Rong	/d͡ziH/	/miuənX/
Wang Li	/d͡ziH/	/mĭuənX/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱiH/	/mi̯uənX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zì	wěn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi6	man5

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦljids  mɯnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	自
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zì
Middle Chinese	‹ dzijH ›
Old Chinese	/*s.[b]i[t]-s/
English	self (adv.)
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	自	刎
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	17879	13207
Phonetic component	自	勿
Rime group	至	文
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	自	吻
Old Chinese	/*ɦljids/	/*mɯnʔ/

Verb

自刎

1. to commit suicide by cutting one's throat

Synonyms

• (Classical Chinese) 自剄／自刭 (zìjǐng)
• (Cantonese) 鋸頸／锯颈
• (Hokkien) 割頷／割颔

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
自	刎

Verb

自刎

1. chữ Hán form of tự vẫn (“to commit suicide”).