白首

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Chinese

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white; empty; blank
white; empty; blank; bright; clear; plain; pure; gratuitous
 
head; chief; first (occasion)
head; chief; first (occasion); first (thing); measure word for poems
 
simp. and trad.
(白首)

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial () (3) (26)
Final () (113) (136)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () II III
Fanqie
Baxter baek syuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/bˠæk̚/ /ɕɨuX/
Pan
Wuyun
/bᵚak̚/ /ɕiuX/
Shao
Rongfen
/bak̚/ /ɕiəuX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/baɨjk̚/ /ɕuwX/
Li
Rong
/bɐk̚/ /ɕiuX/
Wang
Li
/bɐk̚/ /ɕĭəuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/bʱɐk̚/ /ɕi̯ə̯uX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shǒu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
bak6 sau2
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
bái shǒu
Middle
Chinese
‹ bæk › ‹ syuwX ›
Old
Chinese
/*bˁrak/ /*l̥uʔ/
English white head

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. 207 11671
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*braːɡ/ /*hljuʔ/

Noun

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白首

  1. (literary) white hair
  2. (literary) old age
  3. (literary) old people

Derived terms

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Verb

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白首

  1. (literary, of a couple) to live together until the white hairs of old age; to grow old together

Japanese

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Etymology 1

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Kanji in this term
はく
Grade: 1
しゅ
Grade: 2
kan'on goon

Noun

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(はく)(しゅ) (hakushu

  1. white hair
  2. old people

Etymology 2

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Kanji in this term
しろ
Grade: 1
くび
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Noun

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(しろ)(くび) (shirokubi

  1. (historical) a low class unlicensed prostitute who paints the nape of her neck with white powder
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:娼婦

Etymology 3

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Kanji in this term
しら
Grade: 1
くび
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Noun

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(しら)(くび) (shirakubi

  1. Synonym of 白首 (shirokubi, low class unlicensed prostitute)