Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 問

Modern (Beijing) reading: wèn

Preclassic Old Chinese: mhǝns

Classic Old Chinese: mhǝnh

Western Han Chinese: mhǝnh

Eastern Han Chinese: mhwǝnh

Early Postclassic Chinese: mhwɨ̀n

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mhwɨ̀n

Late Postclassic Chinese: mhwɨ̀n

Middle Chinese: mǜn

English meaning : to ask, inquire

Russian meaning[s]: 1) спрашивать; осведомляться; допрашивать; 2) навестить, справиться о здоровье; 3) выговаривать; спрашивать (с кого-л.); 4) интересоваться, касаться; 5) приговорить, присудить; обвинить; 6) остаиить в подарок; 7) тронуть, убедить действовать; 8) от, у; 9) 13-е число (в телеграммах)

Comments: For *mh- cf. Xiamen mŋ⁶, Chaozhou muŋ⁶, Fuzhou muoŋ⁵, Jianou moŋ⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 30

Four-angle index: 3376

Karlgren code: 0441 g-h

Shijing occurrences: 39.2

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *m(r)ǝ̆n

Meaning: ask

Chinese: 問 *mhǝns ask, make inquires.

Tibetan: smon-pa to wish, require

Burmese: mranh to ask (in the compound mijh-mranh to ask).

Comments: Cf. PAA *ma:ń 'ask, tell'.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1117

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 問

MC description : 臻合三去問微

ZIHUI: 0795 2199

Beijing: uǝn 3

Jinan: uẽ 3

Xi'an: vẽ 3

Taiyuan: vuŋ 3

Hankou: uǝn 3

Chengdu: uǝn 3

Yangzhou: uǝn 3

Suzhou: vǝn 32 (lit.); mǝn 32

Wenzhou: vaŋ 32

Changsha: uǝn 31 (lit.); uǝn 32

Shuangfeng: uǝn 32

Nanchang: un 32

Meixian: mun 3

Guangzhou: man 32

Xiamen: bun 32 (lit.); mŋ 32

Chaozhou: muŋ 32

Fuzhou: ouŋ 32 (lit.); muɔŋ 31

Shanghai: vǝŋ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: vǝn 3

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