師子

師子

Chinese

		a division (milit.); teacher; master a division (milit.); teacher; master; expert; model	child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 pm-1 am; midnight
trad. (師子)		師	子
simp. (师子)		师	子

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shīzǐ

  (Zhuyin): ㄕ ㄗˇ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Pinyin: shīzǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄕ ㄗˇ
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shytzyy
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ t͡sz̩²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

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• Middle Chinese: /ʃˠiɪ  t͡sɨ^X/▼

Rime
Character	師	子
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	生 (21)	精 (13)
Final (韻)	脂 (17)	之 (19)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	Chongniu III	III
Fanqie	疏夷切	即里切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʃˠiɪ/	/t͡sɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/ʃᵚi/	/t͡sɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/ʃiɪ/	/t͡sieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʂji/	/t͡sɨX/
Li Rong	/ʃji/	/t͡siəX/
Wang Li	/ʃi/	/t͡sĭəX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʂi/	/t͡siX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shī	zǐ

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*srij  [ts]əʔ|tsəʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*sri  ʔslɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	師	師	子	子
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	shī	shī	zǐ	zǐ
Middle Chinese	‹ srij ›	‹ srij ›	‹ tsiX ›	‹ tsiX ›
Old Chinese	/*srij/	/*srij/	/*[ts]əʔ/	/*tsəʔ/
English	army	master	1st earthly branch	child; gentleman, master
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	師	子
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	11433	17857
Phonetic component	師	子
Rime group	脂	之
Rime subdivision	2	0
Corresponding MC rime	師	子
Old Chinese	/*sri/	/*ʔslɯʔ/

Noun

師子

1. Original form of 獅子／狮子 (shīzi).

Proper noun

師子

1. (～國) (historical) Sri Lanka