濫觴

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See also: 滥觞

Chinese

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excessive; indiscriminate feast; goblet
trad. (濫觴)
simp. (滥觞)

Etymology

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From the concept that the water source is so gentle at the source of a river, that a beverage vessel — (shāng, “a kind of alcohol drinkware”) — can be steadily floated, as if in a banquet with "floating cups" (cf. 流觴曲水). For example, in the Xunzi it was said that

昔者岷山可以濫觴不可 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
昔者岷山可以滥觞不可 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
From: Xunzi, c. 3rd century BCE
Xīzhě Jiāng chū yú Mínshān; qí shǐ chū yě, qí yuán kěyǐ lànshāng; jí qí zhì Jiāng zhī jīn yě, bù fàngzhōu, bù bìfēng, zé bùkě shè yě. [Pinyin]
Consider the Jiang that flows out of the Min Mountains — at its source it used to be able so gentle that one may float a drinking vessels with it. Now at downstream wharfs, only with a boat may one attempt crossing it, and only if the wind permits.

Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 2/2 1/1
Initial () (37) (26)
Final () (143) (105)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I III
Fanqie 𣊟
Baxter lamH syang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/lɑmH/ /ɕɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun
/lɑmH/ /ɕiɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen
/lɑmH/ /ɕiɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/lamH/ /ɕɨaŋ/
Li
Rong
/lɑmH/ /ɕiaŋ/
Wang
Li
/lɑmH/ /ɕĭaŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren
/lɑmH/ /ɕi̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
làn shāng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
laam6 soeng1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shāng
Middle
Chinese
‹ syang ›
Old
Chinese
/*l̥aŋ/
English goblet

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 # 1/2 1/1
No. 6094 14583
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*ɡ·raːms/ /*hljaŋ/

Verb

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濫觴

  1. (literary) to originate
  2. (literary) to spread to and affect; to spread and influence; to involve
  3. (literary) to spread unchecked; to run rampant

Synonyms

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  • (to originate):
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Noun

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濫觴

  1. (literary) source; origin

Synonyms

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