閭閻

Chinese

		gate of a village; village	gate of village
trad. (閭閻)		閭	閻
simp. (闾阎)		闾	阎

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): lǘyán

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄩˊ ㄧㄢˊ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: lǘyán
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄩˊ ㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: lyúyán
    • Wade–Giles: lü²-yen²
    • Yale: lyú-yán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: liuyan
    • Palladius: люйянь (ljujjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ly³⁵ jɛn³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: ljo yem

Rime
Character	閭	閻
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	以 (36)
Final (韻)	魚 (22)	鹽 (153)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	力居切	余廉切
Baxter	ljo	yem
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/lɨʌ/	/jiᴇm/
Pan Wuyun	/liɔ/	/jiɛm/
Shao Rongfen	/liɔ/	/jæm/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lɨə̆/	/jiam/
Li Rong	/liɔ/	/iɛm/
Wang Li	/lĭo/	/jĭɛm/
Bernard Karlgren	/li̯wo/	/i̯ɛm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lǘ	yán
Expected Cantonese Reflex	leoi4	jim4

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*ra  lom/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	閻
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yán
Middle Chinese	‹ yem ›
Old Chinese	/*[ɢ][a]m/
English	gate over street or lane
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	閭	閻
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	8578	13564
Phonetic component	呂	臽
Rime group	魚	談
Rime subdivision	0	3
Corresponding MC rime	臚	鹽
Old Chinese	/*ra/	/*lom/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 閭閻

1. (literary) gates on the inside and outside of a lane; (by extension) lane; alley
2. (literary) among the people; common folk; ordinary people