斥候

Chinese

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chìhòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄔˋ ㄏㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chìhhòu
  - Wade–Giles: chʻih⁴-hou⁴
  - Yale: chr̀-hòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyhhow
  - Palladius: чихоу (čixou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰʐ̩⁵¹⁻⁵³ xoʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: cik¹ hau⁶
  - Yale: chīk hauh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsik⁷ hau⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: qig¹ heo⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɪk̚⁵ hɐu̯²²/
Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: cêg⁴ hao⁷
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshek hāu
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰek̚²⁻⁴ hau¹¹/

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*tʰAk [ɡ]ˤ(r)o-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ŋ̊ʰjaːɡ ɡoːs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	斥	候
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	chì	hòu
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyhek ›	‹ huw^H ›
Old Chinese	/*tʰAk/	/*[ɡ]ˁ(r)o-s/
English	rebuff; salty soil	wait upon
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.

斥候

斥候

斥(せっ)候(こう) • (sekkō) ^{←せきこう (sekikou)^?}

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN