庠序

Chinese

		asylum for the aged; school	order; sequence; preface
simp. and trad. (庠序)		庠	序

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): xiángxù

(Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄤˊ ㄒㄩˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): coeng⁴ zui⁶
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): syorng² sy⁵ / syoeng² sy⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: xiángxù
  - Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄤˊ ㄒㄩˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: siángsyù
  - Wade–Giles: hsiang²-hsü⁴
  - Yale: syáng-syù
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shyangshiuh
  - Palladius: сянсюй (sjansjuj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑŋ³⁵ ɕy⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: coeng⁴ zui⁶
  - Yale: chèuhng juih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoeng⁴ dzui⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: cêng⁴ zui⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰœːŋ²¹ t͡suːi̯²²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: syorng² sy⁵ [Phonetic: syorng⁴ sy⁵]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: sió̤ng-sṳ̄
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬyɒŋ¹³⁻⁴² ɬy¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: syoeng² sy⁵ [Phonetic: syoeng⁴ sy⁵]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɬyøŋ²⁴⁻⁴² ɬy²¹/

Middle Chinese: zjang zjoX

Rime
Character	庠	序
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	邪 (17)	邪 (17)
Final (韻)	陽 (105)	魚 (22)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	似羊切	徐吕切
Baxter	zjang	zjoX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/zɨɐŋ/	/zɨʌ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ziɐŋ/	/ziɔ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ziɑŋ/	/ziɔ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/zɨaŋ/	/zɨə̆^X/
Li Rong	/ziaŋ/	/ziɔ^X/
Wang Li	/zĭaŋ/	/zĭo^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/zi̯aŋ/	/zi̯wo^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xiáng	xù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	coeng⁴	zeoi⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s-[ɢ]aŋ [sə.l]aʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*ljaŋ ljaʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	庠	序
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xiáng	xù
Middle Chinese	‹ zjang ›	‹ zjo^X ›
Old Chinese	/*s-[ɢ]aŋ/	/*[sə.l]aʔ/
English	school	walls at side of palace
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	庠	序
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	14527	15724
Phonetic component	羊	予
Rime group	陽	魚
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	詳
Old Chinese	/*ljaŋ/	/*ljaʔ/

Noun

庠序

(archaic) school
- 謹庠序之教，申之以孝悌之義。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
  谨庠序之教，申之以孝悌之义。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]
  From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE
  Jǐn xiángxù zhī jiào, shēn zhī yǐ xiàotì zhī yì. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- 是以四海之內學校如林，庠序盈門。 [MSC, trad.]
  是以四海之内学校如林，庠序盈门。 [MSC, simp.]
  From: Fu on the Two Capitals
  Shìyǐ sìhǎi zhī nèi xuéxiào rú lín, xiángxù yíng mén. [Pinyin]
  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Further reading

“庠序”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.