誓言

Chinese

 
oath; vow; to swear
oath; vow; to swear; to pledge
 
to speak; to say; talk
to speak; to say; talk; word
simp. and trad.
(誓言)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (25) (31)
Final () (35) (65)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter dzyejH ngjon
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʑiᴇiH/ /ŋɨɐn/
Pan
Wuyun
/d͡ʑiɛiH/ /ŋiɐn/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʑjæiH/ /ŋiɐn/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/d͡ʑiajH/ /ŋɨan/
Li
Rong
/ʑiɛiH/ /ŋiɐn/
Wang
Li
/ʑĭɛiH/ /ŋĭɐn/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ʑi̯ɛiH/ /ŋɨ̯ɐn/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
shì yán
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
sai6 jin4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/4 2/4 3/4 4/4
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shì yán yán yán yán
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzyejH › ‹ ngjon › ‹ ngjon › ‹ ngjon › ‹ ngjon ›
Old
Chinese
/*[d][a]t-s/ /*ŋa[n]/ /*ŋa[n]/ /*ŋa[n]/ /*ŋa[r]/
English swear (a particle) I, we speak; speech tall

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
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 16934 14271
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɦljeds/ /*ŋan/

Noun

誓言

  1. oath; pledge; vow

Synonyms

Verb

誓言

  1. (literary) to vow to; to pledge to; to make an oath to

Synonyms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (誓言):

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
せい
Grade: S
げん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ーげん [sèégéń] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [se̞ːɡẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

(せい)(げん) • (seigen) 

  1. oath; pledge; vow

Verb

(せい)(げん)する • (seigen suru) suru (stem (せい)(げん) (seigen shi), past (せい)(げん)した (seigen shita))

  1. to vow to; to pledge to; to make an oath to
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
せい
Grade: S
ごん
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) ーごん [sèégóń] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [se̞ːɡõ̞ɴ]

Noun

(せい)(ごん) • (seigon) 

  1. oath; pledge; vow

Verb

(せい)(ごん)する • (seigon suru) suru (stem (せい)(ごん) (seigon shi), past (せい)(ごん)した (seigon shita))

  1. to vow to; to pledge to; to make an oath to
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
ちか
Grade: S
こと > ごと
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [t͡ɕika̠ɡo̞to̞]

Noun

(ちか)(ごと) • (chikagoto) 

  1. oath; pledge; vow

References

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