丙丁

Chinese

		3rd heavenly stem	4th heavenly stem; man; people 4th heavenly stem; man; people; little cube; surname
simp. and trad. (丙丁)		丙	丁

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǐngdīng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥˇ ㄉㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bing² ding¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bǐngdīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥˇ ㄉㄧㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bǐngding
    • Wade–Giles: ping³-ting¹
    • Yale: bǐng-dīng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biingding
    • Palladius: биндин (bindin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /piŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ tiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bing² ding¹
    • Yale: bíng dīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bing² ding¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: bing² ding¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɪŋ³⁵ tɪŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: pjaengX teng

Rime
Character	丙	丁
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)	端 (5)
Final (韻)	庚 (111)	青 (125)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	III	IV
Fanqie	兵永切	當經切
Baxter	pjaengX	teng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠiæŋX/	/teŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚiaŋX/	/teŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/piaŋX/	/tɛŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/piajŋX/	/tɛjŋ/
Li Rong	/piɐŋX/	/teŋ/
Wang Li	/pĭɐŋX/	/tieŋ/
Bernard Karlgren	/pi̯ɐŋX/	/tieŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bǐng	dīng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bing2	ding1

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*praŋʔ  tˤeŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pqraŋʔ  teːŋ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	丙	丁
Reading #	1/1	1/3
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bǐng	dīng
Middle Chinese	‹ pjængX ›	‹ teng ›
Old Chinese	/*praŋʔ/	/*tˁeŋ/
English	3d heavenly stem	4th heavenly stem
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	丙	丁
Reading #	1/1	2/2
No.	883	2378
Phonetic component	丙	丁
Rime group	陽	耕
Rime subdivision	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	丙	丁
Old Chinese	/*pqraŋʔ/	/*teːŋ/
Notes	甲文象二石相對並， 與竝同源，後轉註爲兩。又史諱通景	釘（鋌塊）初文

Noun

丙丁

1. the third and fourth of the ten heavenly stems
2. (literary) fire

Derived terms

• 丙丁童子
• 付丙丁 (fùbǐngdīng)