# 西楚霸王
## Chinese

| | | Western Chu | overlord and king; hegemon; overlord |
| trad. (西楚霸王) | trad. (西楚霸王) | 西楚 | 霸王 |
| simp. $^#$(西楚霸王) | simp. $^#$(西楚霸王) | 西楚 | 霸王 |
* 西楚霸王

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): Xīchǔ Bàwáng
    (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧ ㄔㄨˇ ㄅㄚˋ ㄨㄤˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): sai$^1$ co$^2$ baa$^3$ wong$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: Xīchǔ Bàwáng
*** Zhuyin: ㄒㄧ ㄔㄨˇ ㄅㄚˋ ㄨㄤˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: Sichǔ Bàwáng
*** Wade–Giles: Hsi$^1$-chʻu$^3$ Pa$^4$-wang$^2$
*** Yale: Syī-chǔ Bà-wáng
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shichuu Bahwang
*** Palladius: Сичу Баван (Siču Bavan)
*** Sinological IPA : /ɕi⁵⁵ ʈ͡ʂʰu²¹⁴⁻²¹ pä⁵¹ wɑŋ³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: sai$^1$ co$^2$ baa$^3$ wong$^4$
*** Yale: sāi chó ba wòhng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: sai$^1$ tso$^2$ baa$^3$ wong$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: sei$^1$ co$^2$ ba$^3$ wong$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /sɐi̯⁵⁵ t͡sʰɔː³⁵ paː³³ wɔːŋ²¹/
* Middle Chinese: sej tsrhjoX paeH hjwang
Rime :
| Character | 西 | 楚 | 霸 | 王 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/2 | 1/1 | 1/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 心 (16) | 初 (19) | 幫 (1) | 云 (35) |
| Final (韻) | 齊 (39) | 魚 (22) | 麻 (98) | 陽 (106) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) | Departing (H) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open | Open | Closed |
| Division (等) | IV | III | II | III |
| Fanqie | 先稽切 | 創舉切 | 必駕切 | 雨方切 |
| Baxter | sej | tsrhjoX | paeH | hjwang |
| Reconstructions |||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /sei/ | /t͡ʃʰɨʌ$^X$/ | /pˠa$^H$/ | /ɦʉɐŋ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /sei/ | /ʈ͡ʂʰiɔ$^X$/ | /pᵚa$^H$/ | /ɦʷiɐŋ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /sɛi/ | /t͡ʃʰiɔ$^X$/ | /pa$^H$/ | /ɣiuɑŋ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /sɛj/ | /ʈ͡ʂʰɨə̆$^X$/ | /paɨ$^H$/ | /ɦuaŋ/ |
| Li Rong | /sei/ | /t͡ʃʰiɔ$^X$/ | /pa$^H$/ | /ɣiuaŋ/ |
| Wang Li | /siei/ | /t͡ʃʰĭo$^X$/ | /pa$^H$/ | /ɣĭwaŋ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /siei/ | /ʈ͡ʂʰi̯wo$^X$/ | /pa$^H$/ | /iwaŋ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | xī | chǔ | bà | wáng |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | sai$^1$ | co$^2$ | baa$^3$ | wong$^4$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*s-nˤər [s.r̥]aʔ pˤrak-s ɢʷaŋ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*sɯːl sŋ̊ʰraʔ praːɡs ɢʷaŋ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 西 | 楚 | 霸 | 王 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/3 | 1/2 | 1/2 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | xī | chǔ | bà | wáng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ sej › | ‹ tsrhjo$^X$ › | ‹ pæ$^H$ › | ‹ hjwang › |
| Old Chinese | /*s-nˁər/ | /*[s.r̥]aʔ/ | /*pˁrak-s/ | /*ɢʷaŋ/ |
| English | west | arrange in order | have hegemony | king |
| 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 | 西 | 楚 | 霸 | 王 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/2 | 1/1 | 1/2 |
| No. | 13236 | 11781 | 181 | 12742 |
| Phonetic component | 西 | 疋 | 霸 | 王 |
| Rime group | 微 | 魚 | 暮 | 陽 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 西 | 楚 | 霸 | 王 |
| Old Chinese | /*sɯːl/ | /*sŋ̊ʰraʔ/ | /*praːɡs/ | /*ɢʷaŋ/ |

### Proper noun

西楚霸王
* Hegemon-King of Western Chu (Xiang Yu's self-proclaimed title)
       Xīchǔbàwáng zhànbài, zìwěn yú wūjiāng, dàn shìrén háishì chēng tā wèi gài shì yīngxióng. [Pinyin]
       Xiang Yu was defeated in battle and killed himself on the Wu River, but everyone still calls him a hero of the world.

#### Synonyms

* 霸王 (Bàwáng)