僧祇

Chinese

		phonetic
simp. and trad. (僧祇)		僧	祇

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): sēngqí

(Zhuyin): ㄙㄥㄑㄧˊ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: sēngqí
  - Zhuyin: ㄙㄥㄑㄧˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: sengcí
  - Wade–Giles: sêng¹-chʻi²
  - Yale: sēng-chí
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sengchyi
  - Palladius: сэнци (sɛnci)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɤŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi³⁵/

Middle Chinese: song gjie

Rime
Character	僧	祇
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	群 (30)
Final (韻)	登 (129)	支 (11)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	蘇增切	巨支切
Baxter	song	gjie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/səŋ/	/ɡiᴇ/
Pan Wuyun	/səŋ/	/ɡiɛ/
Shao Rongfen	/səŋ/	/ɡjɛ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/səŋ/	/giə̆/
Li Rong	/səŋ/	/ɡie/
Wang Li	/səŋ/	/ɡǐe/
Bernhard Karlgren	/səŋ/	/gie̯/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sēng	qí
Expected Cantonese Reflex	sang¹	kei⁴

Etymology 1

Adjective

僧祇

(literary, Buddhism) short for 阿僧祇 (āsēngqí, “innumerable”)

Etymology 2

Noun

僧祇

(Buddhism) Alternative name for 僧伽 (sēngqié, “sangha”).

Derived terms

僧祇戶 / 僧祇户
僧祇支
僧祇穀 / 僧祇谷
僧祇粟

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Persian (zangi, “dark-skinned”). Cognate with 桑給 as in 桑給巴爾／桑给巴尔 (Sāngjǐbā'ěr).

Noun

僧祇

(literary, obsolete) dark-skinned aborigines in Southeast Asia, or black people from the east coast of Africa