劍士けんし

Chinese

		(double-edged) sword	scholar; warrior; knight
trad. (劍士けんし)		劍けん	士し
simp. (剑士)		剑	士し

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiànshì

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄕˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiànshì
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢˋ ㄕˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jiànshìh
    • Wade–Giles: chien⁴-shih⁴
    • Yale: jyàn-shr̀
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jiannshyh
    • Palladius: цзяньши (czjanʹši)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹/
    • Homophones:

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• Middle Chinese: kjaemH dzriX

Rime
Character	劍けん	士し
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲こえ)	見み (28)	崇たかし (20)
Final (韻いん)	嚴いむ (145)	之これ (19)
Tone (調しらべ)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開ひらき合あい)	Open	Open
Division (等ひとし)	III	III
Fanqie	居きょ欠かけ切きり	鉏里さと切きり
Baxter	kjaemH	dzriX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kɨɐmH/	/d͡ʒɨX/
Pan Wuyun	/kiɐmH/	/ɖ͡ʐɨX/
Shao Rongfen	/kiɐmH/	/d͡ʒieX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kɨamH/	/ɖ͡ʐɨX/
Li Rong	/kiɐmH/	/d͡ʒiəX/
Wang Li	/kĭɐmH/	/d͡ʒĭəX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ki̯ɐmH/	/ɖ͡ʐʱiX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiàn	zhì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gim3	zi6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*s.kr[a]m-s  [m-s-]rəʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kams  zrɯʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	劍けん	士し
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiàn	shì
Middle Chinese	‹ kjæmH ›	‹ dzriX ›
Old Chinese	/*s.kr[a]m-s/	/*[m-s-]rəʔ/
English	sword	officer; gentleman
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	劍けん	士し
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	10227	11511
Phonetic component	僉	士し
Rime group	談だん	之これ
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	劔つるぎ	士し
Old Chinese	/*kams/	/*zrɯʔ/
Notes	原はら列れつ梵韻いん作さく劒， 此本ほん說せつ文ぶん籀文ぶん， 集しゅう韻いん驗けん韻いん或ある體からだ

Noun

劍士けんし

1. swordsman

   Synonym: 劍客けんかく／剑客 (jiànkè)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (劍士けんし):

• → Japanese: 剣けん(けん)士し(し) (kenshi)