胎教

Chinese

		fetus; litter	religion; teaching; teach
simp. and trad. (胎教)		胎	教

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): tāijiào

(Zhuyin): ㄊㄞㄐㄧㄠˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): toi¹ gaau³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: tāijiào
  - Zhuyin: ㄊㄞㄐㄧㄠˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: taijiaw
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰaɪ̯⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: toi¹ gaau³
  - Yale: tōi gaau
  - Cantonese Pinyin: toi¹ gaau³
  - Guangdong Romanization: toi¹ gao³
  - IPA ^(key): /tʰɔːi̯⁵⁵ kɑːu̯³³/

Middle Chinese: /tʰʌi kˠau^H/▼

Rime
Character	胎	教
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Initial (聲)	透 (6)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	咍 (41)	肴 (90)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	II
Fanqie	土來切	古孝切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/tʰʌi/	/kˠau^H/
Pan Wuyun	/tʰəi/	/kᵚau^H/
Shao Rongfen	/tʰɒi/	/kau^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/tʰəj/	/kaɨw^H/
Li Rong	/tʰᴀi/	/kau^H/
Wang Li	/tʰɒi/	/kau^H/
Bernard Karlgren	/tʰɑ̆i/	/kau^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tāi	jiào

Old Chinese▼
(Baxter-Sagart): /*l̥ˤə s.kˤraw-s/

(Zhengzhang): /*l̥ʰɯː kraːws/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	胎	教
Reading #	1/1	2/2
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tāi	jiào
Middle Chinese	‹ thoj ›	‹ kæw^H ›
Old Chinese	/*l̥ˤə/	/*s.kˤraw-s/
English	fetus	teaching; instruction
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	胎	教
Reading #	1/1	2/2
No.	12259	14643
Phonetic component	台	爻
Rime group	之	宵
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	胎	敎
Old Chinese	/*l̥ʰɯː/	/*kraːws/

Verb

胎教

to practice “foetal education”, i.e. to do things deemed beneficial to the development of a baby in utero, such as playing calming music, talking and reading stories to the foetus, and maintaining a general healthy and mindful mentality in the expectant mother

古者胎教，王后腹之七月，而就宴室。 [Classical Chinese, trad. and simp.]
From: 《大戴禮記•保傅》
Gǔ zhě tāijiào, wánghòu fù zhī qī yuè, ér jiù yànshì. [Pinyin]
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