惡少

Chinese

		evil; to hate; to loathe evil; to hate; to loathe; nauseated	young; few; little young; few; little; lack
trad. (惡少)		惡	少
simp. (恶少)		恶	少

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): èshào

  (Zhuyin): ㄜˋ ㄕㄠˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ok³ siu³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: èshào
    • Zhuyin: ㄜˋ ㄕㄠˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: èshào
    • Wade–Giles: o⁴-shao⁴
    • Yale: è-shàu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ehshaw
    • Palladius: эшао (ešao)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀɤ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ok³ siu³
    • Yale: ok siu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ok⁸ siu³
    • Guangdong Romanization: og³ xiu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔːk̚³ siːu̯³³/

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• Middle Chinese: 'ak syewH

Rime
Character	惡	少
Reading #	3/3	2/2
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	書 (26)
Final (韻)	鐸 (103)	宵 (91)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	烏各切	失照切
Baxter	'ak	syewH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔɑk̚/	/ɕiᴇuH/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔɑk̚/	/ɕiɛuH/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɑk̚/	/ɕjæuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔak̚/	/ɕiawH/
Li Rong	/ʔɑk̚/	/ɕiɛuH/
Wang Li	/ɑk̚/	/ɕĭɛuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔɑk̚/	/ɕi̯ɛuH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	e	shào
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ok3	siu3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*ʔˤak  [s-t]ewʔ-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*qaːɡ  hmjews/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	惡	少
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	è	shào
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔak ›	‹ syewH ›
Old Chinese	/*ʔˁak/	/*[s-t]ewʔ-s/
English	bad, ugly	young
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	惡	少
Reading #	3/3	2/2
No.	14220	13708
Phonetic component	亞	小
Rime group	鐸	宵
Rime subdivision	0	2
Corresponding MC rime	惡	少
Old Chinese	/*qaːɡ/	/*hmjews/

Noun

惡少

1. young ruffian

Synonyms

• 惡少年／恶少年
• 惡子／恶子