泗州

Chinese

		Si River	prefecture subprefecture
trad. (泗州)		泗	州
simp. ^#(泗州)		泗	州

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): Sìzhōu

(Zhuyin): ㄙˋ ㄓㄡ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: Sìzhōu
  - Zhuyin: ㄙˋ ㄓㄡ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: Sìhjhou
  - Wade–Giles: Ssŭ⁴-chou¹
  - Yale: Sz̀-jōu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Syhjou
  - Palladius: Сычжоу (Syčžou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sz̩⁵¹ ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese: sijH tsyuw

Rime
Character	泗	州
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	心 (16)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	脂 (15)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	III
Fanqie	息利切	職流切
Baxter	sijH	tsyuw
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/siɪ^H/	/t͡ɕɨu/
Pan Wuyun	/si^H/	/t͡ɕiu/
Shao Rongfen	/sjɪ^H/	/t͡ɕiəu/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/si^H/	/cuw/
Li Rong	/si^H/	/t͡ɕiu/
Wang Li	/si^H/	/t͡ɕĭəu/
Bernhard Karlgren	/si^H/	/t͡ɕi̯ə̯u/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	sì	zhōu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	si³	zau¹

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*hljids tju/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	州
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhōu
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyuw ›
Old Chinese	/*tu/
English	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	泗	州
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12023	17493
Phonetic component	四	州
Rime group	至	幽
Rime subdivision	1	1
Corresponding MC rime	四	周
Old Chinese	/*hljids/	/*tju/

Proper noun

泗州

(historical) Si or Sizhou (a subprefecture of Jiangnan, in Qing-era China)
(historical) Sizhou (a town in Sizhou subprefecture, Jiangnan, in Qing-era China)

Derived terms

泗州戲 / 泗州戏