上黨

See also: 上党

Chinese

		up; on; on top up; on; on top; upon; first; previous or last; upper; higher; above; previous; to climb; to go into; to go up	party; association; club party; association; club; society
trad. (上黨)		上	黨
simp. (上党)		上	党

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Shàngdǎng

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄤˋ ㄉㄤˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): soeng⁶ dong²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Shàngdǎng
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄤˋ ㄉㄤˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Shàngdǎng
    • Wade–Giles: Shang⁴-tang³
    • Yale: Shàng-dǎng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shanqdaang
    • Palladius: Шандан (Šandan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂɑŋ⁵¹ tɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: soeng⁶ dong²
    • Yale: seuhng dóng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soeng⁶ dong²
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêng⁶ dong²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sœːŋ²² tɔːŋ³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyangX|dzyangH tangX

Rime
Character	上	上	黨
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)	常 (25)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)	陽 (105)	唐 (101)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III	I
Fanqie	時掌切	時亮切	多朗切
Baxter	dzyangX	dzyangH	tangX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑɨɐŋX/	/d͡ʑɨɐŋH/	/tɑŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑiɐŋX/	/d͡ʑiɐŋH/	/tɑŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑiɑŋX/	/d͡ʑiɑŋH/	/tɑŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑɨaŋX/	/d͡ʑɨaŋH/	/taŋX/
Li Rong	/ʑiaŋX/	/ʑiaŋH/	/tɑŋX/
Wang Li	/ʑĭaŋX/	/ʑĭaŋH/	/tɑŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑi̯aŋX/	/ʑi̯aŋH/	/tɑŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shàng	shàng	dǎng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	soeng6	soeng6	dong2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*Cə-daŋʔ|m-daŋʔ|daŋʔ-s  tˤaŋʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djaŋʔ|djaŋs  taːŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	上	上	上	黨
Reading #	1/3	2/3	3/3	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shàng	shàng	shàng	dǎng
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyangX ›	‹ dzyangX ›	‹ dzyangH ›	‹ tangX ›
Old Chinese	/*Cə-daŋʔ/	/*m-daŋʔ/	/*daŋʔ-s/	/*tˁaŋʔ/
English	ascend	to put up	top, above (n.)	500 families; relatives
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	上	上	黨
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/2
No.	11102	11103	11113
Phonetic component	上	上	尚
Rime group	陽	陽	陽
Rime subdivision	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	上	尚	黨
Old Chinese	/*djaŋʔ/	/*djaŋs/	/*taːŋʔ/

Proper noun

上黨

1. (～區) Shangdang (a district of Changzhi, Shanxi, China)
2. (historical) (～郡) Shangdang (a historical commandery of China)

Further reading

• Luo, Guanzhong (14th century) Annotated Romance of the Three Kingdoms/Chapter 5, page 69, note 13 (in Mandarin), published 1994, →ISBN