Back to Matrix [ʂ] → [tʃ] Edit this Data

[tʃ]→[ʂ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 2/5

Retraction Sinitic

Voiceless postalveolar affricate to Voiceless retroflex fricative

The Middle Chinese 庄 (zhuāng)-group sibilant [ʃ] (written *sr-) merged into the Mandarin retroflex fricative [ʂ].

Phonetic Effects

Retraction

Language Examples

Mandarin Chinese Sinitic

Middle Chinese 山 srean 'mountain'→shān [ʂan]

Middle Chinese 生 sraeng 'born'→shēng [ʂɤŋ]

Middle Chinese 師 srij 'teacher'→shī [ʂɨ]

More Sinitic Shifts

[b] → [p] — Voice Loss [d] → [t] — Voice Loss [dz] → [l] — Deaffrication [g] → [k] — Voice Loss [g] → [q] — Retraction

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