萬鍾

Chinese

		ten thousand; a great number; surname	(ancient measure); surname
trad. (萬鍾)		萬	鍾
simp. (万钟)		万	钟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): wànzhōng

  (Zhuyin): ㄨㄢˋ ㄓㄨㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maan⁶ zung¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: wànzhōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄨㄢˋ ㄓㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: wànjhong
    • Wade–Giles: wan⁴-chung¹
    • Yale: wàn-jūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: wannjong
    • Palladius: ваньчжун (vanʹčžun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /wän⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂʊŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: maan⁶ zung¹
    • Yale: maahn jūng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maan⁶ dzung¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: man⁶ zung¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /maːn²² t͡sʊŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: mjonH tsyowng

Rime
Character	萬	鍾
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	元 (66)	鍾 (7)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	無販切	職容切
Baxter	mjonH	tsyowng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mʉɐnH/	/t͡ɕɨoŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/mʷiɐnH/	/t͡ɕioŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/miuɐnH/	/t͡ɕioŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/muanH/	/cuawŋ/
Li Rong	/miuɐnH/	/t͡ɕioŋ/
Wang Li	/mĭwɐnH/	/t͡ɕĭwoŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/mi̯wɐnH/	/t͡ɕi̯woŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wàn	zhōng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	maan6	zung1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*C.ma[n]-s  toŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*mlans  tjoŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	萬	鍾	鍾
Reading #	1/1	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wàn	zhōng	zhōng
Middle Chinese	‹ mjonH ›	‹ tsyowng ›	‹ tsyowng ›
Old Chinese	/*C.ma[n]-s/	/*toŋ/	/*toŋ/
English	10000	accumulate; repeat	bell; wine vessel; an ancient measure
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	萬	鍾
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12633	17466
Phonetic component	萬	重
Rime group	元	東
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	万	鍾
Old Chinese	/*mlans/	/*tjoŋ/

Noun

萬鍾

1. an abundant amount of salary

   • 萬鍾則不辨禮義而受之。萬鍾於我何加焉？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     万钟则不辨礼义而受之。万钟于我何加焉？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Wànzhōng zé bù biàn lǐyì ér shòu zhī. Wànzhōng yú wǒ hé jiā yān? [Pinyin]

     And yet a man will accept of ten thousand zhong, without any consideration of propriety or righteousness. What can the ten thousand zhong add to him?