# 街談巷議
## Chinese

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

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jiētánxiàngyì
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄝ ㄊㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄤˋ ㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): gaai$^1$ taam$^4$ hong$^6$ ji$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: jiētánxiàngyì
*** Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄝ ㄊㄢˊ ㄒㄧㄤˋ ㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jietánsiàngyì
*** Wade–Giles: chieh$^1$-tʻan$^2$-hsiang$^4$-i$^4$
*** Yale: jyē-tán-syàng-yì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jietarnshianqyih
*** Palladius: цзетаньсянъи (czetanʹsjanʺi)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕi̯ɛ⁵⁵ tʰän³⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ i⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: gaai$^1$ taam$^4$ hong$^6$ ji$^5$
*** Yale: gāai tàahm hohng yíh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: gaai$^1$ taam$^4$ hong$^6$ ji$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: gai$^1$ tam$^4$ hong$^6$ yi$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /kaːi̯⁵⁵ tʰaːm²¹ hɔːŋ²² jiː¹³/
* 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/ | /ɦˠʌŋ$^H$/ | /ŋˠiᴇ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /kᵚæ/ | /kᵚæi/ | /dɑm/ | /ɦᵚɔŋ$^H$/ | /ŋᵚiɛ$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /kæi/ | /kɐi/ | /dɑm/ | /ɣɔŋ$^H$/ | /ŋiɛ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /kaɨj/ | /kəɨj/ | /dam/ | /ɦaɨwŋ$^H$/ | /ŋjiə̆$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /kɛ/ | /kɛi/ | /dɑm/ | /ɣɔŋ$^H$/ | /ŋje$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /kai/ | /kɐi/ | /dɑm/ | /ɣɔŋ$^H$/ | /ŋǐe$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /kai/ | /kăi/ | /dʱɑm/ | /ɣɔŋ$^H$/ | /ŋie̯$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | jiā | jiē | tán | xiàng | yì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | gaai$^1$ | gaai$^1$ | taam$^4$ | hong$^6$ | ji$^6$ |
* 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 › | ‹ hæwng$^H$ › | ‹ ngje$^H$ › |
| 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
* town talk; street gossip
    Synonym: 街談巷說／街谈巷说 (jiētánxiàngshuō)
    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.