糞土

Chinese

manure; dung
 
earth; dust; rural
earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
trad. (糞土) 糞 土
simp. (粪土) 粪 土

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 糞 土
Reading # 1/1 1/2
Initial (聲) 幫 (1) 透 (6)
Final (韻) 文 (59) 模 (23)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Closed Open
Division (等) III I
Fanqie 方問切 他魯切
Baxter pjunH thuX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/pɨunH/ /tʰuoX/
Pan
Wuyun
/piunH/ /tʰuoX/
Shao
Rongfen
/piuənH/ /tʰoX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/punH/ /tʰɔX/
Li
Rong
/piuənH/ /tʰoX/
Wang
Li
/pĭuənH/ /tʰuX/
Bernard
Karlgren
/pi̯uənH/ /tʰuoX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
fèn tǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
fan3 tou2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 糞 土
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
fèn tǔ
Middle
Chinese
‹ pjunH › ‹ thuX ›
Old
Chinese
/*p[u]r-s/ /*tʰˁaʔ/
English manure, dirt 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 糞 土
Reading # 1/1 1/2
No. 3197 12499
Phonetic
component
糞 土
Rime
group
文 魚
Rime
subdivision
1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
糞 土
Old
Chinese
/*pɯns/ /*l̥ʰaːʔ/

Noun

糞土

  1. dirt; dung; dirty soil
  2. (figurative) worthless thing; nothing
    視錢財如糞土/视钱财如粪土  ―  shì qiáncái rú fèntǔ  ―  to care little about money
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