Chinese

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slow; gentle; surname
province; prefecture; state
province; prefecture; state; county
 
trad. (徐州)
simp. #(徐州)
 
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Pronunciation

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Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (17) (23)
Final () (22) (136)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III III
Fanqie
Baxter zjo tsyuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/zɨʌ/ /t͡ɕɨu/
Pan
Wuyun
/ziɔ/ /t͡ɕiu/
Shao
Rongfen
/ziɔ/ /t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/zɨə̆/ /cuw/
Li
Rong
/ziɔ/ /t͡ɕiu/
Wang
Li
/zĭo/ /t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/zi̯wo/ /t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhōu
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
ceoi4 zau1
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
zhōu
Middle
Chinese
‹ zjo › ‹ tsyuw ›
Old
Chinese
/*sə.la/ /*tu/
English walk slowly islet in stream; province

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 # 1/1 1/1
No. 15782 17493
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*lja/ /*tju/

Proper noun

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徐州

  1. () Xuzhou (a prefecture-level city in northwestern Jiangsu, China)
  2. (historical) Xuzhou (an ancient province, one of the Nine Provinces of ancient China)

See also

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
じょ
Grade: S
しゅう
Grade: 3
on'yomi

Proper noun

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(じょ)(しゅう) (Joshū

  1. Xuzhou (a prefecture-level city in northwestern Jiangsu, China)