弱水

Chinese

weak; feeble; young
weak; feeble; young; inferior
 
 water; river
simp. and trad.
(弱水) 		弱 水

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 弱 水
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 日 (38) 書 (26)
Final (韻) 藥 (107) 脂 (18)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 而灼切 式軌切
Baxter nyak sywijX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ȵɨɐk̚/ /ɕˠiuɪX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ȵiɐk̚/ /ɕʷᵚiX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ȵʑiɑk̚/ /ɕiuɪX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ȵɨak̚/ /ɕjwiX/
Li
Rong 		/ȵiak̚/ /ɕjuiX/
Wang
Li 		/ȵʑĭak̚/ /ɕwiX/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/ȵʑi̯ak̚/ /ɕwiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		ruò shuǐ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		joek6 seoi2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 弱 水
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		ruò shuǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ nyak › ‹ sywijX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*newk/ /*s.turʔ/ (E dialect: *-r > *-j)
English weak water; river

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 弱 水
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 10947 11948
Phonetic
component 		弱 水
Rime
group 		藥 脂
Rime
subdivision 		2 2
Corresponding
MC rime 		若 水
Old
Chinese 		/*njewɢ/ /*qʰʷljilʔ/

Proper noun

弱水

  1. Ejin River (a river in Gansu and Inner Mongolia, China)
    Synonym: 額濟納河 / 额济纳河

Noun

弱水

  1. A legendary river in the paradise. Later, it became a general term for a distant place.[1]

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ 中華民國教育部 (13 August 2025), 教育部重編國語辭典修訂本‎[1]
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