西京

Chinese
west capital; Beijing (abbrev.)
simp. and trad.
(西京)		 西 京

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 西 京
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 心 (16) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 齊 (39) 庚 (111)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) IV III
Fanqie 先稽切 舉卿切
Baxter sej kjaeng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /sei/ /kˠiæŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /sei/ /kᵚiaŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /sɛi/ /kiaŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /sɛj/ /kiajŋ/
Li
Rong		 /sei/ /kiɐŋ/
Wang
Li		 /siei/ /kĭɐŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /siei/ /ki̯ɐŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 xī jīng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 sai1 ging1

Proper noun

西京

  1. (historical) "The Western Capital", a former name of:
    1. Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi, during the Han, Sui, and Tang dynasties
    2. Luoyang (洛陽／洛阳), Henan, during the later Jin dynasty
    3. Datong (大同), Shanxi, during the Liao dynasty
    4. Chengdu (成都), Sichuan, during its occupation by a short-lived successor state to the Ming.
    5. Pyongyang (平壤), Korea, officially from before 921 to 1369 and poetically thereafter

See also

Japanese
Kanji in this term
西 京
さい
Grade: 2		 きょう
Grade: 2
on’yomi

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) さいきょー [sàíkyóó] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA(key): [sa̠ikʲo̞ː]

Noun

西(さい)京(きょう) • (saikyō) ←さいきやう (saikyau)?

  1. a western capital, a former name of a number of cities
  2. one of the proposed names of Kitakyushu (北九州)

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean
Hanja in this term
西京

Proper noun

西京 • (Seogyeong) (hangeul 서경)

  1. Hanja form? of 서경 (“a western capital, a former name of a number of cities”).

Vietnamese
chữ Hán Nôm in this term
西京

Proper noun

西京

  1. chữ Hán form of Tây Kinh (“a western capital, a former name of a number of cities”).
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