端月

Chinese

		end; extremity; item end; extremity; item; port; to hold sth. level with both hands; to carry; regular	moon; month
simp. and trad. (端月)		端	月

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): duānyuè

  (Zhuyin): ㄉㄨㄢ ㄩㄝˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): dyun¹ jyut⁶
• Xiang (Changsha, Wiktionary): donn¹ ye⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: duānyuè
    • Zhuyin: ㄉㄨㄢ ㄩㄝˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: duanyuè
    • Wade–Giles: tuan¹-yüeh⁴
    • Yale: dwān-ywè
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: duanyueh
    • Palladius: дуаньюэ (duanʹjue)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tu̯än⁵⁵ ɥɛ⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: dyun¹ jyut⁶
    • Yale: dyūn yuht
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dyn¹ jyt⁹
    • Guangdong Romanization: dün¹ yud⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tyːn⁵⁵ jyːt̚²/
• Xiang
  • (Changsha)
    • Wiktionary: donn¹ ye⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tõ³³ y̯e̞²⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: twan ngjwot

Rime
Character	端	月
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	端 (5)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	桓 (62)	元 (68)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	多官切	魚厥切
Baxter	twan	ngjwot
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tuɑn/	/ŋʉɐt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/tʷɑn/	/ŋʷiɐt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/tuɑn/	/ŋiuɐt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/twan/	/ŋuat̚/
Li Rong	/tuɑn/	/ŋiuɐt̚/
Wang Li	/tuɑn/	/ŋĭwɐt̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/tuɑn/	/ŋi̯wɐt̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	duān	yuè
Expected Cantonese Reflex	dyun1	jyut6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tˤor  [ŋ]ʷat/

  (Zhengzhang): /*toːn  ŋod/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	端	月
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	duān	yuè
Middle Chinese	‹ twan ›	‹ ngjwot ›
Old Chinese	/*tˁor/	/*[ŋ]ʷat/
English	tip (n.)	moon, month
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	端	月
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	2500	16319
Phonetic component	耑	月
Rime group	元	月
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	端	月
Old Chinese	/*toːn/	/*ŋod/

Noun

端月

1. (literary) the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar

Synonyms

• 正月 (zhēngyuè)