正音

Chinese

		just (right); main; upright just (right); main; upright; straight; correct; principle; Chinese 1st month of year	sound; noise; news
simp. and trad. (正音)		正	音

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhèngyīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄥˋ ㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zing³ jam¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chiàⁿ-im

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhèngyīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄥˋ ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhèngyin
    • Wade–Giles: chêng⁴-yin¹
    • Yale: jèng-yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jenqin
    • Palladius: чжэнъинь (čžɛnʺinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵¹ in⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zing³ jam¹
    • Yale: jing yām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzing³ jam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: jing³ yem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɪŋ³³ jɐm⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiàⁿ-im
    • Tâi-lô: tsiànn-im
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cviarym
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siã²¹⁻⁵³ im⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siã⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ im³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siã²¹⁻⁵³ im⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siã¹¹⁻⁵³ im⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siã²¹⁻⁴¹ im⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyengH 'im

Rime
Character	正	音
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)	影 (34)
Final (韻)	清 (121)	侵 (140)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	之盛切	於金切
Baxter	tsyengH	'im
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕiᴇŋH/	/ʔˠiɪm/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɛŋH/	/ʔᵚim/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiæŋH/	/ʔiem/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ciajŋH/	/ʔjim/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiɛŋH/	/ʔjəm/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭɛŋH/	/ĭĕm/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ɛŋH/	/ʔi̯əm/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhèng	yīn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zing3	jam1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*teŋ-s  [q](r)əm/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjeŋs  qrɯm/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	正	音
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhèng	yīn
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyengH ›	‹ ʔim ›
Old Chinese	/*teŋ-s/	/*[q](r)əm/
English	correct (adj., v.)	sound, tone
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	正	音
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	17178	15223
Phonetic component	正	音
Rime group	耕	侵
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	政	音
Old Chinese	/*tjeŋs/	/*qrɯm/

Noun

正音

1. correct or standard pronunciation
2. (Classical) proper music
3. (Taiwanese Hokkien, dated in Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) Peking opera; Beijing opera

Synonyms

• (Cantonese, informal) 啱音

Dialectal synonyms of 京劇 (“Peking opera”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		京劇
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	京劇, 京戲
	Taiwan	國劇, 京劇, 平劇, 京戲
	Harbin	京戲
	Singapore	京劇
Jilu Mandarin	Tianjin	大戲
	Jinan	京劇
Jiaoliao Mandarin	Yantai (Muping)	京劇
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	京劇
	Wanrong	京劇
	Xi'an	京劇
	Xining	京戲
	Xuzhou	京戲, 大戲, 二黃戲 dated
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	京戲
	Lanzhou	京戲
	Ürümqi	京戲
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	京戲
	Wuhan	京戲
	Guiyang	京劇, 京戲
	Liuzhou	京戲, 京劇
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	京戲
	Yangzhou	大戲
Cantonese	Guangzhou	京劇
	Hong Kong	京劇
	Dongguan	京劇
Gan	Nanchang	京戲
	Lichuan	京戲
	Pingxiang	京戲
Hakka	Meixian	京劇
Huizhou	Jixi	京劇, 京戲
Jin	Taiyuan	京戲
	Xinzhou	京劇
Northern Min	Jian'ou	京戲
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	京戲
Southern Min	Xiamen	京劇, 京班 dated, 大班 dated, 正音 dated
	Quanzhou	京劇, 京班 dated, 大班 dated
	Zhangzhou	京劇, 京班 dated, 大班 dated, 正音 dated
	Taipei	京戲, 正音
	Haikou	京戲
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	京劇
Wu	Shanghai	京戲, 大戲 dated
	Shanghai (Songjiang)	大戲, 京班戲
	Shanghai (Jiading)	大戲
	Shanghai (Chongming)	京戲
	Suzhou	京戲, 大戲 dated
	Danyang	京戲, 大戲
	Hangzhou	京戲
	Ningbo	京戲
	Wenzhou	京戲
	Jinhua	京劇
Xiang	Changsha	京戲
	Loudi	京戲

Verb

正音

1. to correct one's pronunciation

Derived terms

• 正音學／正音学 (zhèngyīnxué)
• 正音法
• 訓民正音／训民正音 (Xùnmín-Zhèngyīn)

 

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (正音):

• → Japanese: 正音(せいおん) (seion)
• → Korean: 정음(正音) (jeong'eum)
• → Vietnamese: chính âm (正音)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
正	音
せい Grade: 1	おん Grade: 1
on'yomi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [se̞ːõ̞ɴ]

Noun

正(せい)音(おん) • (seion) 

1. on'yomi pronunciation of a character

Korean

Hanja in this term
正	音

Noun

正音 • (jeong'eum) (hangeul 정음)

1. hanja form^? of 정음 (“proper pronunciation”)