機心

Chinese

		machine; opportunity; secret	heart; mind
trad. (機心)		機	心
simp. (机心)		机	心
anagram		心機／心机

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīxīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧ ㄒㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gei¹ sam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jīxīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧ ㄒㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jisin
    • Wade–Giles: chi¹-hsin¹
    • Yale: jī-syīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jishin
    • Palladius: цзисинь (czisinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi⁵⁵ ɕin⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gei¹ sam¹
    • Yale: gēi sām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gei¹ sam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: géi¹ sem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kei̯⁵⁵ sɐm⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kj+j sim

Rime
Character	機	心
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	微 (20)	侵 (139)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	居依切	息林切
Baxter	kj+j	sim
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨi/	/siɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/kɨi/	/sim/
Shao Rongfen	/kiəi/	/sjem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɨj/	/sim/
Li Rong	/kiəi/	/siəm/
Wang Li	/kĭəi/	/sĭĕm/
Bernard Karlgren	/ke̯i/	/si̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jī	xīn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gei1	sam1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*kəj  səm/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kɯl  slɯm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	機	心
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jī	xīn
Middle Chinese	‹ kjɨj ›	‹ sim ›
Old Chinese	/*kəj/	/*səm/
English	mechanism	heart
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	機	心
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	5788	13801
Phonetic component	幾	心
Rime group	微	侵
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	機	心
Old Chinese	/*kɯl/	/*slɯm/

Noun

機心

1. (literary or Cantonese) diabolical scheme; cunning idea