刎頸

See also: 刎頚 and 刎颈

Chinese

		cut across (throat)	neck
trad. (刎頸)		刎	頸
simp. (刎颈)		刎	颈

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wěnjǐng

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄣˇ ㄐㄧㄥˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wěnjǐng [Phonetic: wénjǐng]
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄣˇ ㄐㄧㄥˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wǔnjǐng
  - Wade–Giles: wên³-ching³
  - Yale: wěn-jǐng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woenjiing
  - Palladius: вэньцзин (vɛnʹczin)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wən²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡ɕiŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Middle Chinese: mjunX kjiengX

Rime
Character	刎	頸
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Initial (聲)	明 (4)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	文 (59)	清 (121)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	武粉切	居郢切
Baxter	mjunX	kjiengX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/mɨun^X/	/kiᴇŋ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/miun^X/	/kiɛŋ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/miuən^X/	/kiæŋ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/mun^X/	/kiajŋ^X/
Li Rong	/miuən^X/	/kiɛŋ^X/
Wang Li	/mĭuən^X/	/kĭɛŋ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/mi̯uən^X/	/ki̯ɛŋ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wěn	jǐng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	man⁵	ging²

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*mɯnʔ keŋʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	頸
Reading #	1/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jǐng
Middle Chinese	‹ gjieng ›
Old Chinese	/m-[k]eŋ/ (no palatalization before -eŋ?)
English	neck
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	刎	頸
Reading #	1/1	1/2
No.	13207	6789
Phonetic component	勿	巠
Rime group	文	耕
Rime subdivision	1	0
Corresponding MC rime	吻	頸
Old Chinese	/*mɯnʔ/	/*keŋʔ/

Verb

刎⫽頸 (verb-object) (intransitive)

(literary) to commit suicide by cutting the neck with sword

Synonyms

自刎 (zìwěn)

Noun

刎頸

short for 刎頸之交 / 刎颈之交 (wěnjǐngzhījiāo)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (刎頸):

→ Japanese: 刎(ふん)頸(けい) (funkei)
→ Korean: 문경(刎頸) (mun'gyeong)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
刎	頸
ふん Hyōgai	けい Hyōgai
kan'yōon	kan'on

Alternative spelling
刎頚 (extended shinjitai)

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ふんけー [fùńkéé] (Heiban – [0])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟̃ŋke̞ː]

Noun

刎(ふん)頸(けい) • (funkei)

beheading, decapitation
Synonyms: 斬首 (zanshu), 首切り (kubikiri)
short for 刎頸の交わり (funkei no majiwari)

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
刎	頸

Noun

刎頸 • (mun'gyeong) (hangeul 문경)

hanja form^? of 문경 (“beheading, decapitation”)