泥土

Chinese

 
restrained; mud; paste
restrained; mud; paste; pulp
 
earth; dust; rural
earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
trad. (泥土) 泥 土
simp. #(泥土) 泥 土

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 泥 土
Reading # 1/2 1/2
Initial (聲) 泥 (8) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 齊 (39) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV I
Fanqie 奴低切 他魯切
Baxter nej thuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nei/ /tʰuoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/nei/ /tʰuoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/nɛi/ /tʰoX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nɛj/ /tʰɔX/
Li
Rong
/nei/ /tʰoX/
Wang
Li
/niei/ /tʰuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/niei/ /tʰuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
ní tǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
nai4 tou2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 泥 土
Reading # 1/2 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
ní tǔ
Middle
Chinese
‹ nej › ‹ thuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*C.nˁ[əj]/ /*tʰˁaʔ/
English mud earth

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 泥 土
Reading # 1/2 1/2
No. 9417 12499
Phonetic
component
尼 土
Rime
group
脂 魚
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
泥 土
Old
Chinese
/*niːl/ /*l̥ʰaːʔ/

Noun

泥土

  1. earth; soil
  2. clay

Synonyms

  • (earth; soil): (Hokkien, Teochew) 塗

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (泥土):
  • → Japanese: 泥(でい)土(ど) (deido)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
泥 土
でい
Grade: S
ど
Grade: 1
on’yomi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [de̞ːdo̞]

Noun

泥(でい)土(ど) • (deido) 

  1. mud
    • 1941, 徳永直, こんにゃく売り:
      私(わたし)は着物(きもの)についた泥土(でいど)をはらって、もう一度(いちど)お辞儀(じぎ)した。
      Watashi wa kimono ni tsuita deido o haratte, mō ichi do o-jigi shita.
      I brushed off some mud stuck to my kimono and bowed once more.
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