招損

Chinese

		provoke; to recruit	to damage; injure; to lose to damage; injure; to lose; to harm
trad. (招損)		招	損
simp. (招损)		招	损

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhāosǔn

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄠ ㄙㄨㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ziu¹ syun²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chêu-sún
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiau-sún

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhāosǔn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄠ ㄙㄨㄣˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhaosǔn
    • Wade–Giles: chao¹-sun³
    • Yale: jāu-swǔn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jausoen
    • Palladius: чжаосунь (čžaosunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɑʊ̯⁵⁵ su̯ən²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ziu¹ syun²
    • Yale: jīu syún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dziu¹ syn²
    • Guangdong Romanization: jiu¹ xun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːu̯⁵⁵ syːn³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chêu-sún
    • Hakka Romanization System: zeu´ sun`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zeu¹ sun³
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡seu̯²⁴ sun³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiau-sún
    • Tâi-lô: tsiau-sún
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciausuon
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siau⁴⁴⁻²² sun⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siau³³ sun⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siau⁴⁴⁻²² sun⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siau⁴⁴⁻³³ sun⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siau⁴⁴⁻³³ sun⁴¹/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyew swonX

Rime
Character	招	損
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	宵 (91)	魂 (55)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	止遙切	蘇本切
Baxter	tsyew	swonX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇu/	/suənX/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛu/	/suonX/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕjæu/	/suənX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciaw/	/swənX/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɛu/	/suənX/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭɛu/	/suənX/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ɛu/	/suənX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhāo	sǔn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ziu1	syun2

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjew  sqʰuːnʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	損
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	sǔn
Middle Chinese	‹ swonX ›
Old Chinese	/*[s-q]ʷˁə[n]ʔ/
English	diminish, damage
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	招	損
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	2128	16202
Phonetic component	刀	員
Rime group	宵	文
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	昭	損
Old Chinese	/*tjew/	/*sqʰuːnʔ/

Verb

招損

1. (literary) to lead to failure

Antonyms

• 得益 (déyì)
• 受益 (shòuyì)

Derived terms

• 滿招損，謙受益／满招损，谦受益 (mǎn zhāosǔn, qiān shòuyì)