篡位

Chinese

		to seize; to usurp	position; location; (measure word for persons) position; location; (measure word for persons); place; seat
trad. (篡位)		篡	位
simp. ^#(篡位)		篡	位

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): cuànwèi

(Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄢˋ ㄨㄟˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): saan³ wai⁶
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhoàn-ūi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: cuànwèi
  - Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄢˋ ㄨㄟˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cuànwèi
  - Wade–Giles: tsʻuan⁴-wei⁴
  - Yale: tswàn-wèi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuannwey
  - Palladius: цуаньвэй (cuanʹvɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰu̯än⁵¹⁻⁵³ weɪ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: saan³ wai⁶
  - Yale: saan waih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: saan³ wai⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: san³ wei⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /saːn³³ wɐi̯²²/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhoàn-ūi
  - Tâi-lô: tshuàn-uī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: zhoarn'ui
  - Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰuan²¹⁻⁴¹ ui³³/
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰuan¹¹⁻⁵³ ui³³/
  - Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰuan²¹⁻⁵³ ui²²/

Middle Chinese: tsrhwaenH hwijH

Rime
Character	篡	位
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	初 (19)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	刪 (70)	脂 (18)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	II	III
Fanqie	初患切	于愧切
Baxter	tsrhwaenH	hwijH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃʰˠuan^H/	/ɦˠiuɪ^H/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂʰʷᵚan^H/	/ɦʷᵚi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃʰuɐn^H/	/ɣiuɪ^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂʰwaɨn^H/	/ɦjwi^H/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃʰuan^H/	/ɣjui^H/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃʰwan^H/	/ɣwi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂʰwan^H/	/wi^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	chuàn	wèi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	caan³	wai⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*sʰroːns ɢʷrɯbs/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	位
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	wèi
Middle Chinese	‹ hwij^H ›
Old Chinese	/[ɢ]ʷrəp-s/ (< ɢʷəʔ-rəp-s ?)
English	standing, position
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	篡	位
Reading #	1/1	1/1
No.	12141	7865
Phonetic component	算	立
Rime group	元	內
Rime subdivision	3	1
Corresponding MC rime	篡	位
Old Chinese	/*sʰroːns/	/*ɢʷrɯbs/

Verb

篡位

to usurp the throne
(Zhangzhou Hokkien) to cut in line; to jump the queue

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 插隊 (“to cut in line; to jump the queue”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		插隊
Northeastern Mandarin	Beijing	加塞兒, 加個兒
	Taiwan	插隊
	Harbin	加心兒, 加楔子, 加楔兒
	Singapore	插隊
Jilu Mandarin	Tianjin	加個兒
Jilu Mandarin	Jinan	加楔子
Central Plains Mandarin	Wanrong	插隊
	Xi'an	插隊
	Xuzhou	加㞚子, 加㞚兒, 串溝兒
Lanyin Mandarin	Ürümqi	加隊
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	卡輪子, 卡列子, 㮟位
	Chongqing (Changshou)	卡輪子
	Wuhan	岔隊
	Guilin	參隊
Cantonese	Guangzhou	櫼隊, 兼隊, 打櫼, 扒頭
	Hong Kong	打櫼, 插隊, 扒頭
	Taishan	打櫼
Gan	Lichuan	櫼
Gan	Pingxiang	櫼隊
Hakka	Meixian	櫼隊
Southern Min	Xiamen	僭擺, 僭隊, 篡擺
	Quanzhou	僭隊
	Zhangzhou	僭擺, 篡隊, 篡位
	Penang (Hokkien)	插隊
	Shantou	櫼隊, 羼隊
	Leizhou	插隊
	Haikou	櫼隊
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	插隊
Wu	Shanghai	插檔

Derived terms

謀權篡位／谋权篡位
篡位車／篡位车 (cuànwèijū)

Related terms

篡奪／篡夺 (cuànduó)
篡權／篡权 (cuànquán)