五嶺

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Chinese[edit]

five mountain range
trad. (五嶺)
simp. (五岭)
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Pronunciation[edit]



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (31) (37)
Final () (23) (121)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie
Baxter nguX ljengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/ŋuoX/ /liᴇŋX/
Pan
Wuyun
/ŋuoX/ /liɛŋX/
Shao
Rongfen
/ŋoX/ /liæŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ŋɔX/ /liajŋX/
Li
Rong
/ŋoX/ /liɛŋX/
Wang
Li
/ŋuX/ /lĭɛŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ŋuoX/ /li̯ɛŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
lǐng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ng5 ling5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ nguX ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.ŋˁaʔ/
English five

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 13147 8279
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ŋaːʔ/ /*reŋʔ/

Proper noun[edit]

五嶺

  1. the Five Ridges (across the borders between Hunan and Jiangxi on the one hand and Guangdong and Guangxi on the other)