仔肩

Chinese

		minutely; young; duty minutely; young; duty; responsibility	shoulder
trad. (仔肩)		仔	肩
simp. #(仔肩)		仔	肩

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zījiān

  (Zhuyin): ㄗ ㄐㄧㄢ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zi¹ gin¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zījiān
    • Zhuyin: ㄗ ㄐㄧㄢ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: zihjian
    • Wade–Giles: tzŭ¹-chien¹
    • Yale: dz̄-jyān
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzyjian
    • Palladius: цзыцзянь (czyczjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zi¹ gin¹
    • Yale: jī gīn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzi¹ gin¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ji¹ gin¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siː⁵⁵ kiːn⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsi ken

Rime
Character	仔	肩
Reading #	1/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	精 (13)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	之 (19)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	子之切	古賢切
Baxter	tsi	ken
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡sɨ/	/ken/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡sɨ/	/ken/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡sie/	/kɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/t͡sɨ/	/kɛn/
Li Rong	/t͡siə/	/ken/
Wang Li	/t͡sĭə/	/kien/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡si/	/kien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zī	jiān
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zi1	gin1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ʔslɯ  keːn/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	肩
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiān
Middle Chinese	‹ ken ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁe[n]/
English	shoulder (n.)
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	仔	肩
Reading #	1/2	1/1
No.	17855	6023
Phonetic component	子	肩
Rime group	之	元
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	兹	堅
Old Chinese	/*ʔslɯ/	/*keːn/

Noun

仔肩

1. (literary) responsibility; burden

   • 佛時仔肩，示我顯德行。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     佛时仔肩，示我显德行。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Bì shí zǐjiān, shì wǒ xiǎn déxíng. [Pinyin]

     Assist me to bear the burden [of my position],
     And show me how to display a virtuous conduct.

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (仔肩):

• → Korean: 자견(仔肩) (jagyeon)