士大夫

Chinese

scholar; warrior; knight doctor
simp. and trad.
(士大夫)
士 大夫

Etymology

The "program team" sense is a phono-semantic matching of Japanese スタッフ, from English staff.

Pronunciation



Rime
Character 士 大 大 夫
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 崇 (20) 定 (7) 定 (7) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 之 (19) 泰 (25) 歌 (94) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H) Departing (H) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open Open Closed
Division (等) III I I III
Fanqie 鉏里切 徒蓋切 唐佐切 甫無切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/d͡ʒɨX/ /dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /pɨo/
Pan
Wuyun
/ɖ͡ʐɨX/ /dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /pio/
Shao
Rongfen
/d͡ʒieX/ /dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /pio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/ɖ͡ʐɨX/ /dajH/ /daH/ /puə̆/
Li
Rong
/d͡ʒiəX/ /dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /pio/
Wang
Li
/d͡ʒĭəX/ /dɑiH/ /dɑH/ /pĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren
/ɖ͡ʐʱiX/ /dʱɑiH/ /dʱɑH/ /pi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
zhì dài duò fū
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
zi6 daai6 do6 fu1
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 士 大 大 夫
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2 1/3
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
shì dà dà fū
Middle
Chinese
‹ dzriX › ‹ daH › ‹ dajH › ‹ pju ›
Old
Chinese
/*[m-s-]rəʔ/ /*lˁat-s/ (MC F!) /*lˁa[t]-s/ /*p(r)a/
English officer; gentleman big big man

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 士 大 大 夫
Reading # 1/1 1/2 2/2 1/2
No. 11511 1934 1939 3274
Phonetic
component
士 大 大 夫
Rime
group
之 祭 祭 魚
Rime
subdivision
0 1 1 0
Corresponding
MC rime
士 䭾 大 跗
Old
Chinese
/*zrɯʔ/ /*daːds/ /*daːds/ /*pa/

Noun

士大夫

  1. (archaic, historical, Han to Qing dynasties) scholar-official; literati
  2. (Mainland China, television, fandom slang) production team (of a Japanese TV show)
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