西南夷

Chinese

		southwest	safe; to raze; to exterminate safe; to raze; to exterminate; barbarian
simp. and trad. (西南夷)		西南	夷

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*s-nˤər nˤ[ə]m ləj/

(Zhengzhang): /*sɯːl nuːm lil/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	西	南	夷	夷
Reading #	1/1	1/1	1/2	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	xī	nán	yí	yí
Middle Chinese	‹ sej ›	‹ nom ›	‹ yij ›	‹ yij ›
Old Chinese	/*s-nˁər/	/*nˁ[ə]m/	/*ləj/	/*ləj/
English	west	south	level, peaceful	foreigner (especially to the east)
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.

西南夷

(historical) "Southwestern Barbarians" (non-Han ethnic groups living in present-day Guizhou, Yunnan and southwestern Sichuan)

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