瑞鳥

Chinese

		lucky; auspicious; propitious lucky; auspicious; propitious; rayl (acoustical unit)	bird
trad. (瑞鳥)		瑞	鳥
simp. (瑞鸟)		瑞	鸟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): ruìniǎo

  (Zhuyin): ㄖㄨㄟˋ ㄋㄧㄠˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): seoi⁶ niu⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: ruìniǎo
    • Zhuyin: ㄖㄨㄟˋ ㄋㄧㄠˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ruèiniǎo
    • Wade–Giles: jui⁴-niao³
    • Yale: rwèi-nyǎu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: rueyneau
    • Palladius: жуйняо (žujnjao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʐu̯eɪ̯⁵¹ ni̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: seoi⁶ niu⁵
    • Yale: seuih níuh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: soey⁶ niu⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: sêu⁶ niu⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sɵy̯²² niːu̯¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: dzyweH tewX

Rime
Character	瑞	鳥
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	常 (25)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	支 (12)	蕭 (93)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	是僞切	都了切
Baxter	dzyweH	tewX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/d͡ʑiuᴇH/	/teuX/
Pan Wuyun	/d͡ʑʷiɛH/	/teuX/
Shao Rongfen	/d͡ʑjuɛH/	/teuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/d͡ʑwiə̆H/	/tɛwX/
Li Rong	/ʑiueH/	/teuX/
Wang Li	/ʑǐweH/	/tieuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/ʑwie̯H/	/tieuX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	shuì	diǎo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	seoi6	diu2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]or-s  tˤiwʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*djols  tɯːwʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	瑞	鳥
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ruì	niǎo
Middle Chinese	‹ dzyweH ›	‹ tewX ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]or-s/	/*tˁiwʔ/
English	jade tablet	bird
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	瑞	鳥
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	2499	9511
Phonetic component	耑	鳥
Rime group	歌	幽
Rime subdivision	3	2
Corresponding MC rime	睡	鳥
Old Chinese	/*djols/	/*tɯːwʔ/

Noun

瑞鳥

1. auspicious bird