連中三元
简 连中三元 · 繁 連中三元Meanings
- to get a first qualification in imperial examinations at provincial, national and palace level successively
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Tone difference from Unihan
- 中 is read zung3 here; Unihan’s citation reading is zung1. Same syllable, different tone across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 中 zung3 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 連中三元 lián zhòng sān yuán CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(old) to rank first in the imperial examinations at the provincial capital, the national capital and the palace successively; (sports etc) to achieve three successes in a row (three matches in a row, three goals in a match etc)
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: lian2 zhong4 san1 yuan2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
lin4 zung3 saam1 jyun4
Cantonese word readings for 連中三元. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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