泗州

Chinese

		Si River	prefecture subprefecture
trad. (泗州)		泗	州
simp. #(泗州)		泗	州

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Sìzhōu

  (Zhuyin): ㄙˋ ㄓㄡ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Sìzhōu
    • Zhuyin: ㄙˋ ㄓㄡ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Sìhjhou
    • Wade–Giles: Ssŭ⁴-chou¹
    • Yale: Sz̀-jōu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Syhjou
    • Palladius: Сычжоу (Syčžou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: sijH tsyuw

Rime
Character	泗	州
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	息利切	職流切
Baxter	sijH	tsyuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪH/	/t͡ɕɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/siH/	/t͡ɕiu/
Shao Rongfen	/sjɪH/	/t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/siH/	/cuw/
Li Rong	/siH/	/t͡ɕiu/
Wang Li	/siH/	/t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernard Karlgren	/siH/	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sì	zhōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si3	zau1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*hljids  tju/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	州
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhōu
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyuw ›
Old Chinese	/*tu/
English	islet in stream; province
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	泗	州
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12023	17493
Phonetic component	四	州
Rime group	至	幽
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	四	周
Old Chinese	/*hljids/	/*tju/

Proper noun

泗州

1. (historical) Si or Sizhou (a subprefecture of Jiangnan, in Qing-era China)
2. (historical) Sizhou (a town in Sizhou, Jiangnan, in Qing-era China)

Derived terms

• 泗州戲／泗州戏