邊陲

Chinese

		side; edge; margin side; edge; margin; border; boundary	frontier
trad. (邊陲)		邊	陲
simp. (边陲)		边	陲

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): biānchuí

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄢ ㄔㄨㄟˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bin¹ seoi⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: biānchuí
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄢ ㄔㄨㄟˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bianchuéi
    • Wade–Giles: pien¹-chʻui²
    • Yale: byān-chwéi
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bianchwei
    • Palladius: бяньчуй (bjanʹčuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pi̯ɛn⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu̯eɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bin¹ seoi⁴
    • Yale: bīn sèuih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bin¹ soey⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: bin¹ sêu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piːn⁵⁵ sɵy̯²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: pen dzywe

Rime
Character	邊	陲
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	支 (12)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	布玄切	是爲切
Baxter	pen	dzywe
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pen/	/d͡ʑiuᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/pen/	/d͡ʑʷiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/pɛn/	/d͡ʑjuɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/pɛn/	/d͡ʑwiə̆/
Li Rong	/pen/	/ʑiue/
Wang Li	/pien/	/ʑǐwe/
Bernard Karlgren	/pien/	/ʑwie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	biān	chuí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bin1	seoi4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mpeːn  djol/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	邊
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	biān
Middle Chinese	‹ pen ›
Old Chinese	/*pˁe[n]/
English	side
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	邊	陲
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	9056	1677
Phonetic component	臱	垂
Rime group	元	歌
Rime subdivision	2	3
Corresponding MC rime	邊	𡍮
Old Chinese	/*mpeːn/	/*djol/

Noun

邊陲

1. border area; borderland; frontier

Synonyms

• 邊境／边境 (biānjìng)
• 邊疆／边疆 (biānjiāng)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (邊陲):

• → Vietnamese: biên thuỳ (邊陲)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
邊	陲

Noun

邊陲

1. chữ Hán form of biên thuỳ (“border; frontier”).