刎頸

See also: 刎頚 and 刎颈

Chinese

		cut across (throat)	neck
trad. (刎頸)		刎	頸
simp. (刎颈)		刎	颈

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wěnjǐng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˇ ㄐㄧㄥˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wěnjǐng [Phonetic: wénjǐng]
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˇ ㄐㄧㄥˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wǔnjǐng
    • Wade–Giles: wên³-ching³
    • Yale: wěn-jǐng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woenjiing
    • Palladius: вэньцзин (vɛnʹczin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

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• Middle Chinese: mjunX kjiengX

Rime
Character	刎	頸
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	文 (59)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	武粉切	居郢切
Baxter	mjunX	kjiengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨunX/	/kiᴇŋX/
Pan Wuyun	/miunX/	/kiɛŋX/
Shao Rongfen	/miuənX/	/kiæŋX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/munX/	/kiajŋX/
Li Rong	/miuənX/	/kiɛŋX/
Wang Li	/mĭuənX/	/kĭɛŋX/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯uənX/	/ki̯ɛŋX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wěn	jǐng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man5	ging2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*mɯnʔ  keŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	頸
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jǐng
Middle Chinese	‹ gjieng ›
Old Chinese	/*m-[k]eŋ/ (no palatalization before *-eŋ?)
English	neck
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	刎	頸
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	13207	6789
Phonetic component	勿	巠
Rime group	文	耕
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	吻	頸
Old Chinese	/*mɯnʔ/	/*keŋʔ/

Verb

刎⫽頸 (verb-object) (intransitive)

1. (literary) to commit suicide by cutting the neck with sword

Synonyms

• 自刎 (zìwěn)

Noun

刎頸

1. Short for 刎頸之交／刎颈之交 (wěnjǐngzhījiāo).

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (刎頸):

• → Japanese: 刎(ふん)頸(けい) (funkei)
• → Korean: 문경(刎頸) (mun'gyeong)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
刎	頸
ふん Hyōgaiji	けい Hyōgaiji
kan’yōon	kan’on

Alternative spelling
刎頚 (extended shinjitai)

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ふんけー [fùńkéé] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟̃ᵝŋke̞ː]

Noun

刎(ふん)頸(けい) • (funkei) 

1. beheading, decapitation

   Synonyms: 斬首 (zanshu), 首切り (kubikiri)

2. Short for 刎頸の交わり (funkei no majiwari).

Korean

Hanja in this term
刎	頸

Noun

刎頸 • (mun'gyeong) (hangeul 문경)

1. Hanja form^? of 문경 (“beheading, decapitation”).