# 唯命是聽
## Chinese

| | | yes; only; alone | life; fate | be; yes; this | let; allow; listenlet; allow; listen; hear; obey |
| trad. (唯命是聽) | trad. (唯命是聽) | 唯 | 命 | 是 | 聽 |
| simp. (唯命是听) | simp. (唯命是听) | 唯 | 命 | 是 | 听 |
| alternative forms | alternative forms | 惟命是聽／惟命是听 | 惟命是聽／惟命是听 | 惟命是聽／惟命是听 | 惟命是聽／惟命是听 |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): wéimìngshìtīng
    (Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˊ ㄇㄧㄥˋ ㄕˋ ㄊㄧㄥ
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: wéimìngshìtīng
*** Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˊ ㄇㄧㄥˋ ㄕˋ ㄊㄧㄥ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: wéimìngshìhting
*** Wade–Giles: wei$^2$-ming$^4$-shih$^4$-tʻing$^1$
*** Yale: wéi-mìng-shr̀-tīng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: weiminqshyhting
*** Palladius: вэйминшитин (vɛjminšitin)
*** Sinological IPA : /weɪ̯³⁵ miŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂʐ̩⁵¹ tʰiŋ⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: ywij mjaengH dzyeX theng
Rime :
| Character | 唯 | 命 | 是 | 聽 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 以 (36) | 明 (4) | 常 (25) | 透 (6) |
| Final (韻) | 脂 (16) | 庚 (111) | 支 (11) | 青 (125) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Departing (H) | Rising (X) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Closed | Open | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | III | III | IV |
| Fanqie | 以追切 | 眉病切 | 承紙切 | 他丁切 |
| Baxter | ywij | mjaengH | dzyeX | theng |
| Reconstructions |||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /jiuɪ/ | /mˠiæŋ$^H$/ | /d͡ʑiᴇ$^X$/ | /tʰeŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /jʷi/ | /mᵚiaŋ$^H$/ | /d͡ʑiɛ$^X$/ | /tʰeŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /juɪ/ | /miaŋ$^H$/ | /d͡ʑjɛ$^X$/ | /tʰɛŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /jwi/ | /miajŋ$^H$/ | /d͡ʑiə̆$^X$/ | /tʰɛjŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /ui/ | /miɐŋ$^H$/ | /ʑie$^X$/ | /tʰeŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /jwi/ | /mĭɐŋ$^H$/ | /ʑǐe$^X$/ | /tʰieŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /wi/ | /mi̯ɐŋ$^H$/ | /ʑie̯$^X$/ | /tʰieŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | wéi | mìng | shì | tīng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | wai$^4$ | ming$^6$ | si$^6$ | ting$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ɢʷij m-riŋ-s [d]eʔ l̥ˤeŋ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ɢʷi mreŋs djeʔ l̥ʰeːŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 唯 | 命 | 是 | 聽 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | wéi | mìng | shì | tīng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ywij › | ‹ mjæng$^H$ › | ‹ dzye$^X$ › | ‹ theng › |
| Old Chinese | /*ɢʷij/ (< *ɢʷuj?) | /*m-riŋ-s/ (dialect: *m-r- > *mr-, *-iŋ> *-eŋ) | /*[d]eʔ/ | /*l̥ˁeŋ/ |
| English | only | command (n.) | this | listen |
| 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 | 唯 | 命 | 是 | 聽 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/2 |
| No. | 12854 | 8275 | 11645 | 11392 |
| Phonetic component | 唯 | 令 | 是 | 聖 |
| Rime group | 脂 | 耕 | 支 | 耕 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 惟 | 命 | 是 | 汀 |
| Old Chinese | /*ɢʷi/ | /*mreŋs/ | /*djeʔ/ | /*l̥ʰeːŋ/ |
| Notes | 本象隹鳴，鷕即其轉註異構， 非隹聲 | 令轉註字 | 金文從早從止， 馬敘倫謂正加射的。按象對準目標行進， 表所行正確 | 甲金文象耳對口， 後繁化加心壬聲， 右上即卜口繁化 |

### Idiom

唯命是聽
* Synonym of 唯命是從／唯命是从 (wéimìngshìcóng, “to follow orders as if one's life depended on it; to do what one is told without fail”)
    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
    Zài zhèyàng de huìyì lǐ, gè mínzhòng tuántǐ de yìjiàn yǐngxiǎng xiànzhǎng, xiànzhǎng zǒngshì wéimìngshìtīng. [Pinyin]
    At such council meetings the magistrate is influenced by the views of the public organizations and invariably does their bidding.