步輦

Chinese

		a step; a pace; walk a step; a pace; walk; march; stages in a process	emperor's carriage
trad. (步輦)		步	輦
simp. (步辇)		步	辇

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): bùniǎn

(Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄋㄧㄢˇ
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pō͘-lián

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: bùniǎn
  - Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄋㄧㄢˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: bùniǎn
  - Wade–Giles: pu⁴-nien³
  - Yale: bù-nyǎn
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buhnean
  - Palladius: бунянь (bunjanʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ ni̯ɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Jinjiang, General Taiwanese, Singapore)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pō͘-lián
  - Tâi-lô: pōo-lián
  - Phofsit Daibuun: poxliern
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pɔ²²⁻²¹ liɛn⁵³/
  - IPA (Singapore): /pɔ²²⁻²¹ liɛn⁴²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /pɔ³³⁻¹¹ liɛn⁵³/
  - IPA (Quanzhou, Jinjiang): /pɔ⁴¹⁻²² liɛn⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɔ³³⁻²¹ liɛn⁴¹/

Middle Chinese: buH ljenX

Rime
Character	步	輦
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	仙 (77)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	薄故切	力展切
Baxter	buH	ljenX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buo^H/	/liᴇn^X/
Pan Wuyun	/buo^H/	/liɛn^X/
Shao Rongfen	/bo^H/	/ljæn^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɔ^H/	/lian^X/
Li Rong	/bo^H/	/liɛn^X/
Wang Li	/bu^H/	/lĭɛn^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/bʱuo^H/	/li̯ɛn^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bù	liǎn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bou⁶	lin⁵

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*mə-bˤa-s [r][a][n]ʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*baːs renʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	步	輦
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bù	niǎn
Middle Chinese	‹ bu^H ›	‹ ljen^X ›
Old Chinese	/*mə-bˁa-s/	/*[r][a][n]ʔ/
English	step	cart drawn by men
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	步	輦
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	1051	9484
Phonetic component	步	輦
Rime group	魚	元
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	捕	輦
Old Chinese	/*baːs/	/*renʔ/

Noun

步輦

(literary, post-Qin) sedan carriage

Verb

步輦

(literary, post-Qin) to take a sedan carriage
(Southern Min) to go on foot; to walk

Synonyms

(go on foot):

串 (literary, or in compounds)
履行 (lǚxíng) (literary)
徒步 (túbù)
步 (bù) (literary, or in compounds)
步履 (bùlǚ) (literary)
步行 (bùxíng)
步趨 / 步趋 (bùqū)
行動 / 行动 (xíngdòng)
行步 (xíngbù) (literary)
行走 (xíngzǒu)
走動 / 走动 (zǒudòng)
走路 (zǒulù)
走道 (zǒudào)