鷂雉

Chinese

		sparrow hawk; Accipiter nisus	ringed pheasant
trad. (鷂雉)		鷂	雉
simp. (鹞雉)		鹞	雉

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yáozhì

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄠˊ ㄓˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yáozhì
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠˊ ㄓˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yáojhìh
    • Wade–Giles: yao²-chih⁴
    • Yale: yáu-jr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yaujyh
    • Palladius: яочжи (jaočži)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɑʊ̯³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵¹/

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• Middle Chinese: yew drijX

Rime
Character	鷂	雉
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	以 (36)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)	脂 (17)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	餘昭切	直几切
Baxter	yew	drijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/jiᴇu/	/ɖˠiɪX/
Pan Wuyun	/jiɛu/	/ɖᵚiX/
Shao Rongfen	/jæu/	/ȡiɪX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/jiaw/	/ɖjiX/
Li Rong	/iɛu/	/ȡjiX/
Wang Li	/jĭɛu/	/ȡiX/
Bernard Karlgren	/i̯ɛu/	/ȡʱiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yáo	zhì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jiu4	zi6

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*lew  l'iʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	雉
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhì
Middle Chinese	‹ drijX ›
Old Chinese	/*lr[i]jʔ/
English	pheasant
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	鷂	雉
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	14714	11502
Phonetic component	謠	矢
Rime group	宵	脂
Rime subdivision	3	2
Corresponding MC rime	遙	雉
Old Chinese	/*lew/	/*l'iʔ/

Noun

鷂雉

1. a kind of colorful green pheasant