祥瑞

Chinese

		auspicious; propitious	lucky; auspicious; propitious lucky; auspicious; propitious; rayl (acoustical unit)
simp. and trad. (祥瑞)		祥	瑞

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiángruì

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˊ ㄖㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng⁴ seoi⁶
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): siông-sūi

(Teochew, Peng'im): siang⁵ sui⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiángruì
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˊ ㄖㄨㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siángruèi
  - Wade–Giles: hsiang²-jui⁴
  - Yale: syáng-rwèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyangruey
  - Palladius: сянжуй (sjanžuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ³⁵ ʐu̯eɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: coeng⁴ seoi⁶
  - Yale: chèuhng seuih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng⁴ soey⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêng⁴ sêu⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰœːŋ²¹ sɵy̯²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siông-sūi
  - Tâi-lô: siông-suī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siongsui
  - IPA (Taipei): /siɔŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ sui³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siɔŋ²³⁻³³ sui³³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: siang⁵ sui⁶
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: siâng sŭi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /siaŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ sui³⁵/

Middle Chinese: zjang dzyweH

Rime
Character	祥	瑞
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)	常 (25)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)	支 (12)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	似羊切	是僞切
Baxter	zjang	dzyweH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨɐŋ/	/d͡ʑiuᴇ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ziɐŋ/	/d͡ʑʷiɛ^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ziɑŋ/	/d͡ʑjuɛ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨaŋ/	/d͡ʑwiə̆^H/
Li Rong	/ziaŋ/	/ʑiue^H/
Wang Li	/zĭaŋ/	/ʑǐwe^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi̯aŋ/	/ʑwie̯^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiáng	shuì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	coeng⁴	seoi⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s.ɢaŋ [d]or-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*ljaŋ djols/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	祥	瑞
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiáng	ruì
Middle Chinese	‹ zjang ›	‹ dzywe^H ›
Old Chinese	/*s.ɢaŋ/	/*[d]or-s/
English	auspicious	jade tablet
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	祥	瑞
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	14528	2499
Phonetic component	羊	耑
Rime group	陽	歌
Rime subdivision	0	3
Corresponding MC rime	詳	睡
Old Chinese	/*ljaŋ/	/*djols/

Noun

祥瑞

auspicious sign

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (祥瑞):

→ Japanese: 祥瑞(しょうずい) (shōzui)
→ Korean: 상서(祥瑞) (sangseo)

Japanese

Pronunciation 1

Kanji in this term
祥	瑞
しょう Grade: S	ずい Jinmeiyō
kan'on	goon

Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

(Tokyo) しょーずい [shòózúí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɕo̞ːzɨi]

Noun

祥(しょう)瑞(ずい) • (shōzui) ^{←しやうずい (syauzui)^?}

auspicious sign

Pronunciation 2

Kanji in this term
祥	瑞
しょん Grade: S	ずい Jinmeiyō
tōon	goon

Alternative spelling
(kyūjitai)

(Tokyo) しょんずい [shòńzúí] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɕõ̞nd͡zɨi]

Noun

祥(しょん)瑞(ずい) • (shonzui)

a kind of Jingdezhen blue-and-white porcelain from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
祥	瑞

Noun

祥瑞 • (sangseo) (hangeul 상서)

hanja form^? of 상서 (“a lucky omen, a happy augury”)