# 安危
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): ānwēi, ānwéi
    (Zhuyin): ㄢ ㄨㄟ, ㄢ ㄨㄟˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): on$^1$ ngai$^4$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): an-gûi
    (Teochew, Peng'im): ang$^1$ nguin$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: ānwēi
*** Zhuyin: ㄢ ㄨㄟ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: anwei
*** Wade–Giles: an$^1$-wei$^1$
*** Yale: ān-wēi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: anuei
*** Palladius: аньвэй (anʹvɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /ˀän⁵⁵ weɪ̯⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese, standard in Taiwan; dated variant in Mainland)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: ānwéi
*** Zhuyin: ㄢ ㄨㄟˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: anwéi
*** Wade–Giles: an$^1$-wei$^2$
*** Yale: ān-wéi
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: anwei
*** Palladius: аньвэй (anʹvɛj)
*** Sinological IPA : /ˀän⁵⁵ weɪ̯³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: on$^1$ ngai$^4$
*** Yale: ōn ngàih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: on$^1$ ngai$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: on$^1$ ngei$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /ɔːn⁵⁵ ŋɐi̯²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: an-gûi
*** Tâi-lô: an-guî
*** Phofsit Daibuun: an'guii
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /an⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡui²³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /an⁴⁴⁻³³ ɡui²⁴/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: ang$^1$ nguin$^5$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ang ngûiⁿ
*** Sinological IPA : /aŋ³³⁻²³ ŋũĩ⁵⁵/
* Middle Chinese: 'an ngjwe
Rime :
| Character | 安 | 危 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 影 (34) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 寒 (61) | 支 (14) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Closed |
| Division (等) | I | III |
| Fanqie | 烏寒切 | 魚爲切 |
| Baxter | 'an | ngjwe |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ʔɑn/ | /ŋˠiuᴇ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʔɑn/ | /ŋʷᵚiɛ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ʔɑn/ | /ŋiuɛ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʔan/ | /ŋjwiə̆/ |
| Li Rong | /ʔɑn/ | /ŋjue/ |
| Wang Li | /ɑn/ | /ŋǐwe/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʔɑn/ | /ŋwie̯/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | ān | wéi |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | on$^1$ | ngai$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ʔ]ˤa[n] [ŋ](r)[o]j/
    (Zhengzhang): /*qaːn ŋrol/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 安 | 安 | 安 | 危 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 2/3 | 3/3 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | ān | ān | ān | wēi |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ 'an › | ‹ 'an › | ‹ 'an › | ‹ ngjwe › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ʔ]ˁa[n]/ | /*[ʔ]ˁa[n]/ | /*[ʔ]ˁa[n]/ | /*[ŋ](r)[o]j/ |
| English | peace(ful) | how | 安息 Ānxī (Iranian country in the western regions, W. Hàn; from Aršaka = Arsaces, founder of the Arsacid dynasty) | in danger |
| 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 | 安 | 危 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 11 | 12781 |
| Phonetic component | 安 | 危 |
| Rime group | 元 | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 3 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 安 | 危 |
| Old Chinese | /*qaːn/ | /*ŋrol/ |

### Noun

安危
* safety and danger

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 安 | 危 |
| あん Grade: 3 | き Grade: 6 |
| on'yomi ||

### Etymology

From Middle Chinese compound 安危 (ʔan ngjwe, literally “peace + danger”).

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) あんき [áꜜǹkì] (Atamadaka –)
* IPA: [ã̠ŋʲkʲi]

### Noun

安(あん)危(き) • (anki)
* safety and danger

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN