街談巷議

Chinese

		street	to speak; to talk; to converse to speak; to talk; to converse; to chat; to discuss; surname	lane; alley	criticize; discuss
trad. (街談巷議)		街	談	巷	議
simp. (街谈巷议)		街	谈	巷	议

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiētánxiàngyì

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝ ㄊㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄤˋ ㄧˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gaai¹ taam⁴ hong⁶ ji⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiētánxiàngyì
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝ ㄊㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄤˋ ㄧˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jietánsiàngyì
    • Wade–Giles: chieh¹-tʻan²-hsiang⁴-i⁴
    • Yale: jyē-tán-syàng-yì
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jietarnshianqyih
    • Palladius: цзетаньсянъи (czetanʹsjanʺi)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵ tʰän³⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ i⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: gaai¹ taam⁴ hong⁶ ji⁵
    • Yale: gāai tàahm hohng yíh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gaai¹ taam⁴ hong⁶ ji⁵
    • Guangdong Romanization: gai¹ tam⁴ hong⁶ yi⁵
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kaːi̯⁵⁵ tʰaːm²¹ hɔːŋ²² jiː¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: kea|keaj dam haewngH ngjeH

Rime
Character	街	街	談	巷	議
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)	見 (28)	定 (7)	匣 (33)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	佳 (31)	皆 (33)	談 (143)	江 (9)	支 (13)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open	Open	Open	Open
Division (等)	II	II	I	II	III
Fanqie	古膎切	古諧切	徒甘切	胡絳切	宜寄切
Baxter	kea	keaj	dam	haewngH	ngjeH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠɛ/	/kˠɛi/	/dɑm/	/ɦˠʌŋH/	/ŋˠiᴇH/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚæ/	/kᵚæi/	/dɑm/	/ɦᵚɔŋH/	/ŋᵚiɛH/
Shao Rongfen	/kæi/	/kɐi/	/dɑm/	/ɣɔŋH/	/ŋiɛH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨj/	/kəɨj/	/dam/	/ɦaɨwŋH/	/ŋjiə̆H/
Li Rong	/kɛ/	/kɛi/	/dɑm/	/ɣɔŋH/	/ŋjeH/
Wang Li	/kai/	/kɐi/	/dɑm/	/ɣɔŋH/	/ŋǐeH/
Bernard Karlgren	/kai/	/kăi/	/dʱɑm/	/ɣɔŋH/	/ŋie̯H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiā	jiē	tán	xiàng	yì
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gaai1	gaai1	taam4	hong6	ji6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[k]ˤre  lˤ[o]m  C.[ɡ]ˤroŋ-s  ŋ(r)aj-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*kreː  l'aːm  ɡroːŋs  ŋrals/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	街	談	巷	議
Reading #	1/1	1/1	1/1	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	jiē	tán	xiàng	yì
Middle Chinese	‹ kɛ ›	‹ dam ›	‹ hæwngH ›	‹ ngjeH ›
Old Chinese	/*[k]ˁre/	/*lˁ[o]m/	/*C.[ɡ]ˁroŋ-s/	/*ŋ(r)aj-s/
English	road-crossing	speak	lane, street	discuss
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	街	街	談	巷	議
Reading #	1/2	2/2	1/1	1/1	1/1
No.	4527	4532	14292	4151	13056
Phonetic component	圭	圭	炎	共	我
Rime group	支	支	談	東	歌
Rime subdivision	0	0	1	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	皆	佳	談	巷	議
Old Chinese	/*kreː/	/*kreː/	/*l'aːm/	/*ɡroːŋs/	/*ŋrals/
Notes	本音佳

Idiom

街談巷議

1. town talk; street gossip

   Synonym: 街談巷說／街谈巷说 (jiētánxiàngshuō)

   • 我初到長沙時，會到各方面的人，聽到許多的街談巷議。 [MSC, trad.]
     我初到长沙时，会到各方面的人，听到许多的街谈巷议。 [MSC, simp.]

     From: 1927, 毛澤東 (Mao Zedong), 《湖南農民運動考察報告》 (Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan), 《毛澤東選集》. English translation based on the Foreign Languages Press edition

     Wǒ chū dào Chángshā shí, huì dào gè fāngmiàn de rén, tīng dào xǔduō de jiētánxiàngyì. [Pinyin]

     Soon after my arrival in Changsha, I met all sorts of people and picked up a good deal of gossip.