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[ʈʰ]→[ʈʂʰ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 2/5

Affrication Aspiration Sinitic

Voiceless aspirated retroflex stop to Voiceless aspirated retroflex affricate

The Middle Chinese 徹 (chè) initial, an aspirated retroflex stop [ʈʰ] (Baxter trh-), became the aspirated retroflex affricate [ʈʂʰ] in Mandarin.

Phonetic Effects

Affrication

Language Examples

Mandarin Chinese Sinitic

Middle Chinese 抽 trhjuw 'pull out'→chōu [ʈʂʰoʊ]

Middle Chinese 超 trhjew 'surpass'→chāo [ʈʂʰɑʊ]

Middle Chinese 丑 trhjuwX 'ugly'→chǒu [ʈʂʰoʊ]

More Sinitic Shifts

[b] → [p] — Voice Loss [dʲ] → [dʒ] — Affrication [d] → [dʒ] — Palatalization [d] → [dʑ] — Palatalization [d] → [t] — Voice Loss

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