自宮

Chinese

		from; self; oneself from; self; oneself; since	palace; uterus
trad. (自宮)		自	宮
simp. (自宫)		自	宫

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zìgōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄗˋ ㄍㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi⁶ gung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zìgōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄗˋ ㄍㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zìhgong
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ⁴-kung¹
    • Yale: dz̀-gūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyhgong
    • Palladius: цзыгун (czygun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵¹ kʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi⁶ gung¹
    • Yale: jih gūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi⁶ gung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji⁶ gung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː²² kʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dzijH kjuwng

Rime
Character	自	宮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	從 (15)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	東 (2)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	疾二切	居戎切
Baxter	dzijH	kjuwng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ziɪH/	/kɨuŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ziH/	/kiuŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡zjɪH/	/kiuŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ziH/	/kuwŋ/
Li Rong	/d͡ziH/	/kiuŋ/
Wang Li	/d͡ziH/	/kĭuŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/d͡zʱiH/	/ki̯uŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zì	jiōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi6	gung1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.[b]i[t]-s  k(r)uŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ɦljids  kuŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	自	宮
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zì	gōng
Middle Chinese	‹ dzijH ›	‹ kjuwng ›
Old Chinese	/*s.[b]i[t]-s/	/*k(r)uŋ/
English	self (adv.)	dwelling; palace; note of scale
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	宮
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	17879	4147
Phonetic component	自	宮
Rime group	至	終
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	自	弓
Old Chinese	/*ɦljids/	/*kuŋ/

Verb

自宮

1. to castrate oneself