# 臧否
## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): zāngpǐ
    (Zhuyin): ㄗㄤ ㄆㄧˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zong$^1$ pei$^2$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zāngpǐ
*** Zhuyin: ㄗㄤ ㄆㄧˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: zangpǐ
*** Wade–Giles: tsang$^1$-pʻi$^3$
*** Yale: dzāng-pǐ
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzangpii
*** Palladius: цзанпи (czanpi)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sɑŋ⁵⁵ pʰi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zong$^1$ pei$^2$
*** Yale: jōng péi
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzong$^1$ pei$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: zong$^1$ péi$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sɔːŋ⁵⁵ pʰei̯³⁵/
* Middle Chinese: tsang bijX
Rime :
| Character | 臧 | 否 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 精 (13) | 並 (3) |
| Final (韻) | 唐 (101) | 脂 (17) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | III |
| Fanqie | 則郎切 | 符鄙切 |
| Baxter | tsang | bijX |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡sɑŋ/ | /bˠiɪ$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡sɑŋ/ | /bᵚi$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sɑŋ/ | /biɪ$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡saŋ/ | /bji$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡sɑŋ/ | /bji$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡sɑŋ/ | /bi$^X$/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /t͡sɑŋ/ | /bʱi$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zāng | bì |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zong$^1$ | bei$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*[ts]ˤaŋ
    (Zhengzhang): /*ʔsaːŋ brɯʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 臧 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | zāng |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ tsang › |
| Old Chinese | /*[ts]ˁaŋ/ |
| English | good |
| 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 | 臧 | 否 |
| Reading # | 1/1 | 1/2 |
| No. | 10277 | 1022 |
| Phonetic component | 爿 | 不 |
| Rime group | 陽 | 之 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 臧 | 否 |
| Old Chinese | /*ʔsaːŋ/ | /*brɯʔ/ |
| Notes | 甲文從臣從戈， 象以戈刺俘目爲奴（楊樹達說），後乃加爿聲爲轉註字 | |

### Noun

臧否
* (literary, now rare) good and/or bad
    From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11th – 7th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    yúhū xiǎozǐ, wèizhī zāngpǐ... [Pinyin]
    Oh! my son, When you did not know what was good, and what was not good...
    From: Ge Hong, Baopuzi, 4th century CE
    Fú Qiān zhī qiàwén, páng zōng yōu yǐn, shātài shìwù zhī zāngpǐ, héshí gǔrén zhī xiézhèng. [Pinyin]
    Sima Qian was widely knowledgeable and insightful. Delving into obscure scholarship, he sifted through and evaluated the good and bad in things, verifying the moral integrity or depravity of historical figures.

#### Synonyms

* 善惡 / 善恶 (shàn'è)
* 好壞 / 好坏 (hǎohuài)
* 好歹 (hǎodǎi)
* 好䆀 (Zhangzhou Hokkien)
* 好賴 / 好赖 (hǎolài)
* 是非 (shìfēi)
* 長短 / 长短 (chángduǎn)
* 黑白 (hēibái) (figurative)

### Verb

臧否
* (literary) to judge (people); to appraise
    From: 648 CE, Fang Xuanling (lead editor), Book of Jin
    Jí suī bùjū lǐjiào, rán fāyán xuányuǎn, kǒu bù zāngpǐ rénwù. [Pinyin]
    While not following the conventions of his society, Ruan Ji's utterances were abstruse and profound. He would never express his opinions about others.

#### Synonyms

* 褒貶／褒贬 (bāobiǎn)
* 評論／评论 (pínglùn)

#### Derived terms

* 陟罰臧否 / 陟罚臧否 (zhìfázāngpǐ)