# 彈丸之地
## Chinese

| | | pellet; shot; bulletpellet; shot; bullet; tiny place | 's; him/her/it; this | earth; ground; fieldearth; ground; field; place; land; (subor. part. adverbial); ‑ly |
| trad. (彈丸之地) | trad. (彈丸之地) | 彈丸 | 之 | 地 |
| simp. (弹丸之地) | simp. (弹丸之地) | 弹丸 | 之 | 地 |

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): dànwánzhīdì
    (Zhuyin): ㄉㄢˋ ㄨㄢˊ ㄓ ㄉㄧˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): daan$^6$ jyun$^2$ zi$^1$ dei$^6$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: dànwánzhīdì
*** Zhuyin: ㄉㄢˋ ㄨㄢˊ ㄓ ㄉㄧˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: dànwánjhihdì
*** Wade–Giles: tan$^4$-wan$^2$-chih$^1$-ti$^4$
*** Yale: dàn-wán-jr̄-dì
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: dannwanjydih
*** Palladius: даньваньчжиди (danʹvanʹčžidi)
*** Sinological IPA : /tän⁵¹ wän³⁵ ʈ͡ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ ti⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: daan$^6$ jyun$^2$ zi$^1$ dei$^6$
*** Yale: daahn yún jī deih
*** Cantonese Pinyin: daan$^6$ jyn$^2$ dzi$^1$ dei$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: dan$^6$ yun$^2$ ji$^1$ déi$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /taːn²² jyːn³⁵ t͡siː⁵⁵ tei̯²²/
* Middle Chinese: danH hwan tsyi dijH
Rime :
| Character | 彈 | 丸 | 之 | 地 |
| Reading # | 2/2 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 定 (7) | 匣 (33) | 章 (23) | 定 (7) |
| Final (韻) | 寒 (61) | 桓 (62) | 之 (19) | 脂 (15) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Level (Ø) | Level (Ø) | Departing (H) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Closed | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | I | III | III |
| Fanqie | 徒案切 | 胡官切 | 止而切 | 徒四切 |
| Baxter | danH | hwan | tsyi | dijH |
| Reconstructions |||||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /dɑn$^H$/ | /ɦuɑn/ | /t͡ɕɨ/ | /diɪ$^H$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /dɑn$^H$/ | /ɦʷɑn/ | /t͡ɕɨ/ | /di$^H$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /dɑn$^H$/ | /ɣuɑn/ | /t͡ɕie/ | /djɪ$^H$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /dan$^H$/ | /ɦwan/ | /cɨ/ | /di$^H$/ |
| Li Rong | /dɑn$^H$/ | /ɣuɑn/ | /t͡ɕiə/ | /di$^H$/ |
| Wang Li | /dɑn$^H$/ | /ɣuɑn/ | /t͡ɕĭə/ | /di$^H$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /dʱɑn$^H$/ | /ɣuɑn/ | /t͡ɕi/ | /dʱi$^H$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | dàn | huán | zhī | dì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | daan$^6$ | wun$^4$ | zi$^1$ | dei$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ˤar-s [ɢ]ʷˤar tə [l]ˤej-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*daːns ɡʷaːn tjɯ l'els/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 彈 | 丸 | 之 | 之 | 地 |
| Reading # | 1/3 | 1/2 | 1/2 | 2/2 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | dàn | wán | zhī | zhī | dì |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ dan$^H$ › | ‹ hwan › | ‹ tsyi › | ‹ tsyi › | ‹ dij$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*[d]ˁar-s/ | /*[ɢ]ʷˁar/ | /*tə/ | /*tə/ | /*[l]ˁej-s/ |
| English | pellet | pellet; ball | go to | (3p object pronoun; attributive particle) | earth, ground |
| 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 | 彈 | 丸 | 之 | 地 |
| Reading # | 2/2 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| No. | 2013 | 12608 | 17188 | 14808 |
| Phonetic component | 單 | 丸 | 之 | 也 |
| Rime group | 元 | 元 | 之 | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 憚 | 桓 | 之 | 地 |
| Old Chinese | /*daːns/ | /*ɡʷaːn/ | /*tjɯ/ | /*l'els/ |

### Idiom

彈丸之地
* a tiny place
       Xiānggǎng zhè piàn dànwánzhīdì, jìngrán zhù le qībǎiwàn rén. [Pinyin]
       There is a shocking population of 7 million in a tiny place like Hong Kong.
    From: Zhanguo Ce, circa 5th – 3rd centuries BCE
    Cǐ dànwánzhīdì, yóu bù yǔ yě. [Pinyin]
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)