委瑣

Chinese

Etymology 1

		give up; indeed; to commission give up; indeed; to commission; crooked	fragmentary; trifling
trad. (委瑣)		委	瑣
simp. (委琐)		委	琐
alternative forms		委璅

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): wěisuǒ

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄟˇ ㄙㄨㄛˇ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wěisuǒ [Phonetic: wéisuǒ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄟˇ ㄙㄨㄛˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wěisuǒ
  - Wade–Giles: wei³-so³
  - Yale: wěi-swǒ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: woeisuoo
  - Palladius: вэйсо (vɛjso)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /weɪ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ su̯ɔ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

Middle Chinese: 'jweX swaX

Rime
Character	委	瑣
Reading #	2/2	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	心 (16)
Final (韻)	支 (14)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	於詭切	蘇果切
Baxter	'jweX	swaX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔˠiuᴇ^X/	/suɑ^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔʷᵚiɛ^X/	/suɑ^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔiuɛ^X/	/suɑ^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔjwiə̆^X/	/swa^X/
Li Rong	/ʔjue^X/	/suɑ^X/
Wang Li	/ǐwe^X/	/suɑ^X/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔwie̯^X/	/suɑ^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wěi	suǒ
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wai²	so²

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*q(r)ojʔ [s]ˤojʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*qrolʔ soːlʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	委	瑣
Reading #	2/4	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wěi	suǒ
Middle Chinese	‹ ʔjwe^X ›	‹ swa^X ›
Old Chinese	/*q(r)ojʔ/	/*[s]ˁojʔ/
English	entrust to	small, fragment
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	委	瑣
Reading #	2/2	1/1
No.	12903	12206
Phonetic component	委	瑣
Rime group	歌	歌
Rime subdivision	3	3
Corresponding MC rime	委	鎖
Old Chinese	/*qrolʔ/	/*soːlʔ/
Notes		轉註加玉

Adjective

委瑣

(literary) trivial; trifling
alternative form of 猥瑣 / 猥琐 (wěisuǒ, “wretched”)

Etymology 2

		phonetic
trad. (委瑣)		委	瑣
simp. (委琐)		委	琐

Borrowed from English whistle.

Pronunciation

Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): húi--so / úi-sò

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: húi--so
  - Tâi-lô: huí--so
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: úi-sò
  - Tâi-lô: uí-sò
  - Phofsit Daibuun: uysoix
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /ui⁵³⁻⁴⁴ so²¹/

Noun

委瑣

(Hokkien) whistle (device used to make a whistling sound)
(Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien) referee; umpire

Synonyms

(whistle): 哨子 (shàozi); (Hokkien) 觱仔, 觱觱仔; (Xiang) 叫珠子
(referee): 裁判員／裁判员 (cáipànyuán), 裁判 (cáipàn), 裁判官 (cáipànguān)