顓臾

Chinese

		surname; good; simple	surname; a moment; little while
trad. (顓臾)		顓	臾
simp. (颛臾)		颛	臾

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Zhuānyú

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄢ ㄩˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyun¹ jyu⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Zhuānyú
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄢ ㄩˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Jhuanyú
    • Wade–Giles: Chuan¹-yü²
    • Yale: Jwān-yú
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Juanyu
    • Palladius: Чжуаньюй (Čžuanʹjuj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯än⁵⁵ y³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyun¹ jyu⁴
    • Yale: jyūn yùh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzyn¹ jy⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: jun¹ yu⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡syːn⁵⁵ jyː²¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tsywen yu

Rime
Character	顓	臾
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	仙 (78)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	職緣切	羊朱切
Baxter	tsywen	yu
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiuᴇn/	/jɨo/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕʷiɛn/	/jio/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjuæn/	/io/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cwian/	/juə̆/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiuɛn/	/io/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭwɛn/	/jĭu/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯wɛn/	/i̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuān	yú
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zyun1	jyu4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjon  lo/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	臾
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yú
Middle Chinese	‹ yu ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ](r)o/
English	pull, drag
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	顓	臾
Reading #	1/1	2/2
No.	2513	15823
Phonetic component	耑	臾
Rime group	元	侯
Rime subdivision	3	0
Corresponding MC rime	專	逾
Old Chinese	/*tjon/	/*lo/

Proper noun

顓臾

1. (～國) Zhuanyu (an ancient state in modern Shandong, China)