澹臺

Chinese

		phonetic
trad. (澹臺/澹台)		澹	臺/台
simp. (澹台)		澹	台

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Tántái

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄢˊ ㄊㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): taam⁴ toi⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Tâm-tâi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Tántái
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄢˊ ㄊㄞˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Tántái
    • Wade–Giles: Tʻan²-tʻai²
    • Yale: Tán-tái
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Tarntair
    • Palladius: Таньтай (Tanʹtaj)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰän³⁵ tʰaɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: taam⁴ toi⁴
    • Yale: tàahm tòih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: taam⁴ toi⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tam⁴ toi⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰaːm²¹ tʰɔːi̯²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâm-tâi
    • Tâi-lô: Tâm-tâi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: damdaai
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tam²⁴⁻²² tai²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tam²⁴⁻²² tai²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tam¹³⁻²² tai¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tam²⁴⁻¹¹ tai²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tam²³⁻³³ tai²³/

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• Middle Chinese: dam doj

Rime
Character	澹	臺
Reading #	1/3	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	談 (143)	咍 (41)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	徒甘切	徒哀切
Baxter	dam	doj
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/dɑm/	/dʌi/
Pan Wuyun	/dɑm/	/dəi/
Shao Rongfen	/dɑm/	/dɒi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dam/	/dəj/
Li Rong	/dɑm/	/dᴀi/
Wang Li	/dɑm/	/dɒi/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱɑm/	/dʱɑ̆i/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tán	tái
Expected Cantonese Reflex	taam4	toi4

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[l]ˤamʔ  lˤə/

  (Zhengzhang): /*daːm  dɯː/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	澹	臺
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	dàn	tái
Middle Chinese	‹ damX ›	‹ doj ›
Old Chinese	/*[l]ˁamʔ/	/*lˁə/
English	calm	tower
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	澹	臺
Reading #	1/3	1/1
No.	16755	12306
Phonetic component	詹	臺
Rime group	談	之
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	談	臺
Old Chinese	/*daːm/	/*dɯː/
Notes		室高省，小徐之聲

Proper noun

澹臺

1. a surname