糞土

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Chinese

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manure; dung
earth; dust; rural
earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
 
trad. (糞土)
simp. (粪土)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial () (1) (6)
Final () (59) (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division () III I
Fanqie
Baxter pjunH thuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pɨunH/ /tʰuoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/piunH/ /tʰuoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/piuənH/ /tʰoX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/punH/ /tʰɔX/
Li
Rong
/piuənH/ /tʰoX/
Wang
Li
/pĭuənH/ /tʰuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯uənH/ /tʰuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fèn
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fan3 tou2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
fèn
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjunH › ‹ thuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*p[u]r-s/ /*tʰˁaʔ/
English manure, dirt earth

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 1/2
No. 3197 12499
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*pɯns/ /*l̥ʰaːʔ/

Noun

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糞土

  1. dirt; dung; dirty soil
  2. (figurative) worthless thing; nothing
    錢財糞土钱财粪土  ―  shì qiáncái rú fèntǔ  ―  to care little about money