鷁首

Chinese

		fishhawk bow or prow	head; chief; first (occasion) head; chief; first (occasion); first (thing); measure word for poems
trad. (鷁首)		鷁	首
simp. (鹢首)		鹢	首
alternative forms		艗艏

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yìshǒu

  (Zhuyin): ㄧˋ ㄕㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jik⁶ sau²

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yìshǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄧˋ ㄕㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yìshǒu
    • Wade–Giles: i⁴-shou³
    • Yale: yì-shǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yihshoou
    • Palladius: ишоу (išou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /i⁵¹ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jik⁶ sau²
    • Yale: yihk sáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jik⁹ sau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: yig⁶ seo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɪk̚² sɐu̯³⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: ngek syuwX

Rime
Character	鷁	首
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	錫 (127)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	IV	III
Fanqie	五歷切	書九切
Baxter	ngek	syuwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋek̚/	/ɕɨuX/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋek̚/	/ɕiuX/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋɛk̚/	/ɕiəuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋɛjk̚/	/ɕuwX/
Li Rong	/ŋek̚/	/ɕiuX/
Wang Li	/ŋiek̚/	/ɕĭəuX/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ŋiek̚/	/ɕi̯ə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yì	shǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jik6	sau2

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*m-ɢˤek  l̥uʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*ŋɡleːɡ  hljuʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	鷁	首
Reading #	1/1	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	yì	shǒu
Middle Chinese	‹ ngek ›	‹ syuwX ›
Old Chinese	/*m-ɢˁek/	/*l̥uʔ/
English	kind of aquatic bird	head
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	鷁	首
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	15086	11671
Phonetic component	益	首
Rime group	錫	幽
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	鷁	首
Old Chinese	/*ŋɡleːɡ/	/*hljuʔ/

Noun

鷁首

1. (obsolete) bird-shaped figurehead of a ship
2. (metonymically, literary, poetic) ship (often a highly ornate one)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (鷁首):

• → Japanese: 鷁(げき)首(しゅ) (gekishu); 鷁(げき)首(す) (gekisu)