# 盟主
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): méngzhǔ
    (Zhuyin): ㄇㄥˊ ㄓㄨˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): mang$^4$ zyu$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bêng-chú
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: méngzhǔ
*** Zhuyin: ㄇㄥˊ ㄓㄨˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: méngjhǔ
*** Wade–Giles: mêng$^2$-chu$^3$
*** Yale: méng-jǔ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mengjuu
*** Palladius: мэнчжу (mɛnčžu)
*** Sinological IPA : /mɤŋ³⁵ ʈ͡ʂu²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: mang$^4$ zyu$^2$
*** Yale: màhng jyú
*** Cantonese Pinyin: mang$^4$ dzy$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: meng$^4$ ju$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /mɐŋ²¹ t͡syː³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bêng-chú
*** Tâi-lô: bîng-tsú
*** Phofsit Daibuun: bengzuo
*** IPA (Xiamen): /biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /biɪŋ²⁴⁻²² t͡su⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /biɪŋ¹³⁻²² t͡su⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /biɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ t͡su⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /biɪŋ²³⁻³³ t͡su⁴¹/
* Middle Chinese: mjaeng tsyuX
Rime :
| Character | 盟 | 主 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 明 (4) | 章 (23) |
| Final (韻) | 庚 (111) | 虞 (24) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Closed |
| Division (等) | III | III |
| Fanqie | 武兵切 | 之庾切 |
| Baxter | mjaeng | tsyuX |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /mˠiæŋ/ | /t͡ɕɨo$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /mᵚiaŋ/ | /t͡ɕio$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /miaŋ/ | /t͡ɕio$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /miajŋ/ | /cuə̆$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /miɐŋ/ | /t͡ɕio$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /mĭɐŋ/ | /t͡ɕĭu$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /mi̯ɐŋ/ | /t͡ɕi̯u$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | míng | zhǔ |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ming$^4$ | zyu$^2$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*mraŋ toʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*mraŋ tjoʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 盟 | 主 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | méng | zhǔ |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ mjæng › | ‹ tsyu$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*mraŋ/ | /*toʔ/ |
| English | covenant | master; host |
| 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 | 盟 | 主 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 1/1 |
| No. | 9189 | 17618 |
| Phonetic component | 明 | 主 |
| Rime group | 陽 | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 明 | 主 |
| Old Chinese | /*mraŋ/ | /*tjoʔ/ |

### Noun

盟主
* leader of an alliance

#### Descendants

* → Japanese: 盟(めい)主(しゅ) (meishu)
* → Korean: 맹주(盟主) (maengju)
* → Vietnamese: minh chủ (盟主)

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 盟 | 主 |
| めい Grade: 6 | しゅ Grade: 3 |
| on'yomi ||

### Etymology

From Chinese 盟主 (méngzhǔ).

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) めーしゅ [méꜜèshù] (Atamadaka – [1])
* IPA: [me̞ːɕɨ]
** Homophones: 名手, 名主, 明主

### Noun

盟(めい)主(しゅ) • (meishu)
* an alliance leader
** 2007 October 20, Izawa, Hiroshi with Yamada, Kotaro, “最(さい)終(しゅう)話(わ)　それぞれの道(みち)へ [Final Chapter: Epilog]”, in ファイアーエムブレム 覇者の剣 [Fire Emblem: Sword of Champions], Jump Remix edition, volume 5 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 351:
    美(うつく)しき盟(めい)主(しゅ)リリーナ
       Utsukushiki Meishu Rirīna
       Lilina, Beautiful Commander of the Alliance

### See also

* 同(どう)盟(めい) (dōmei)