寡助

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Chinese

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few; widowed to help; to assist
simp. and trad.
(寡助)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (28) (20)
Final () (99) (22)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () II III
Fanqie
Baxter kwaeX dzrjoH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠuaX/ /d͡ʒɨʌH/
Pan
Wuyun
/kʷᵚaX/ /ɖ͡ʐiɔH/
Shao
Rongfen
/kuaX/ /d͡ʒiɔH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kwaɨX/ /ɖ͡ʐɨə̆H/
Li
Rong
/kuaX/ /d͡ʒiɔH/
Wang
Li
/kwaX/ /d͡ʒĭoH/
Bernard
Karlgren
/kwaX/ /ɖ͡ʐʱi̯woH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
guǎ zhù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gwaa2 zo6
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
guǎ zhù
Middle
Chinese
‹ kwæX › ‹ dzrjoH ›
Old
Chinese
/*[C.k]ʷˁraʔ/ /*[dz]ra-s/
English few help (v.)

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. 4400 10457
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kʷraːʔ/ /*zras/

Noun

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寡助

  1. (literary) finding little support; paucity of support

Derived terms

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