夙夜

Chinese

		morning	night
trad. (夙夜)		夙	夜
simp. #(夙夜)		夙	夜

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): sùyè

  (Zhuyin): ㄙㄨˋ ㄧㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): suk¹ je⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: sùyè
    • Zhuyin: ㄙㄨˋ ㄧㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: sùyè
    • Wade–Giles: su⁴-yeh⁴
    • Yale: sù-yè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: suhyeh
    • Palladius: суе (suje)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /su⁵¹⁻⁵³ jɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: suk¹ je⁶
    • Yale: sūk yeh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: suk⁷ je⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: sug¹ yé⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊk̚⁵ jɛː²²/

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• Middle Chinese: sjuwk yaeH

Rime
Character	夙	夜
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	屋 (4)	麻 (100)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	息逐切	羊謝切
Baxter	sjuwk	yaeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/sɨuk̚/	/jiaH/
Pan Wuyun	/siuk̚/	/jiaH/
Shao Rongfen	/siuk̚/	/iaH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/suwk̚/	/jiaH/
Li Rong	/siuk̚/	/iaH/
Wang Li	/sĭuk̚/	/jĭaH/
Bernard Karlgren	/si̯uk̚/	/i̯aH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	su	yè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	suk1	je6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[s]uk  [ɢ]Ak-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*suɡ  laːɡs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	夙	夜
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sù	yè
Middle Chinese	‹ sjuwk ›	‹ yæH ›
Old Chinese	/*[s]uk/	/*[ɢ]Ak-s/
English	early morning	night
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	夙	夜
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12098	14992
Phonetic component	夙	亦
Rime group	覺	暮
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	肅	夜
Old Chinese	/*suɡ/	/*laːɡs/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 夙夜

1. morning and night; day and night

Adverb

(deprecated template usage) 夙夜

1. always; all the time

   受命以來，夙夜憂歎，恐託付不效，以傷先帝之明，故五月渡瀘，深入不毛。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   受命以来，夙夜忧叹，恐托付不效，以伤先帝之明，故五月渡泸，深入不毛。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: (deprecated template usage) 諸葛亮 (Zhūgě Liàng), 《出師表》

   Shòumìng yǐlái, sùyè yōutàn, kǒng tuōfù bùxiào, yǐ shāng xiāndì zhī míng, gù wǔyuè dù Lú, shēnrù bùmáo. [Pinyin]

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