# 一家之言
## Chinese

| | | one; single; aone; single; a; (before verbs) as soon as, once; (before a noun) entire (family, etc.) | home; family; ‑isthome; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools | 's; him/her/it; this | to speak; to say; talkto speak; to say; talk; word |
| simp. and trad. (一家之言) | simp. and trad. (一家之言) | 一 | 家 | 之 | 言 |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): yījiāzhīyán
    (Zhuyin): ㄧ ㄐㄧㄚ ㄓ ㄧㄢˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): jat$^1$ gaa$^1$ zi$^1$ jin$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: yījiāzhīyán [Phonetic: yìjiāzhīyán]
*** Zhuyin: ㄧ ㄐㄧㄚ ㄓ ㄧㄢˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: yijiajhihyán
*** Wade–Giles: i$^1$-chia$^1$-chih$^1$-yen$^2$
*** Yale: yī-jyā-jr̄-yán
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ijiajyyan
*** Palladius: ицзячжиянь (iczjačžijanʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /i⁵⁵⁻⁵¹ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ jɛn³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: jat$^1$ gaa$^1$ zi$^1$ jin$^4$
*** Yale: yāt gā jī yìhn
*** Cantonese Pinyin: jat$^7$ gaa$^1$ dzi$^1$ jin$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: yed$^1$ ga$^1$ ji$^1$ yin$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /jɐt̚⁵ kaː⁵⁵ t͡siː⁵⁵ jiːn²¹/
* Middle Chinese: 'jit kae tsyi ngjon
Rime :
| Character | 一 | 家 | 之 | 言 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) | 見 (28) | 章 (23) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 質 (48) | 麻 (98) | 之 (19) | 元 (65) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | III | II | III | III |
| Fanqie | 於悉切 | 古牙切 | 止而切 | 語軒切 |
| Baxter | 'jit | kae | tsyi | ngjon |
| Reconstructions |||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔiɪt̚/ | /kˠa/ | /t͡ɕɨ/ | /ŋɨɐn/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔit̚/ | /kᵚa/ | /t͡ɕɨ/ | /ŋiɐn/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔjet̚/ | /ka/ | /t͡ɕie/ | /ŋiɐn/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔit̚/ | /kaɨ/ | /cɨ/ | /ŋɨan/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔiĕt̚/ | /ka/ | /t͡ɕiə/ | /ŋiɐn/ |
| Wang Li | /ĭĕt̚/ | /ka/ | /t͡ɕĭə/ | /ŋĭɐn/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʔi̯ĕt̚/ | /ka/ | /t͡ɕi/ | /ŋɨ̯ɐn/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | yi | jiā | zhī | yán |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | jat$^1$ | gaa$^1$ | zi$^1$ | jin$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔi[t] kˤra tə ŋa[n]/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qliɡ kraː tjɯ ŋan/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 一 | 家 | 之 | 言 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/2 | 3/4 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | yī | jiā | zhī | yán |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ ʔjit › | ‹ kæ › | ‹ tsyi › | ‹ ngjon › |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔi[t]/ | /*kˁra/ | /*tə/ | /*ŋa[n]/ |
| English | one | household | (3p object pronoun; attributive particle) | speak; speech |
| 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 | 一 | 家 | 之 | 言 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 14833 | 5919 | 17188 | 14271 |
| Phonetic component | 一 | 家 | 之 | 言 |
| Rime group | 質 | 魚 | 之 | 元 |
| Rime subdivision | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 一 | 嘉 | 之 | 言 |
| Old Chinese | /*qliɡ/ | /*kraː/ | /*tjɯ/ | /*ŋan/ |

### Idiom

一家之言
* statements of a school; (merely) one school of thought
    From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE
    Xù lüè, yǐ shíyí bǔyì, chéng yījiāzhīyán, jué xié liùjīng yìzhuàn, zhěngqí bǎijiā záyǔ. [Pinyin]
    With these brief notes, I hope that I may add to the lost parts of the Canons and Arts, establish another school of scholarship, thereby provide accompaniment to the voluminous commentaries on the Six Classics, and consolidate the diverse teachings by the previous masters.
* (often humble) one's own thought, opinion, interpretation, etc. (implying bias, incompleteness, etc.)