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Modern (Beijing) reading: kěn
Preclassic Old Chinese: khǝ̄ŋʔ
Classic Old Chinese: khǝ̄́ŋ
Western Han Chinese: khǝ̄́ŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: khǝ̄́ŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̄́ŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̄́ŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̄́ŋ
Middle Chinese: khʌ́ŋ
English meaning : be willing
Russian meaning[s]: соглашаться, хотеть
Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is khắng.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 130
Four-angle index: 3521
Karlgren code: 0882 a-b
Go-on: kou
Kan-on: kou
Japanese reading: kō;gaenzuru;aete
Vietnamese reading: khú'ng
Shijing occurrences: 30.2
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kh[ɨ̄]ŋH ( ~ gh-)
Meaning: will, intend
Chinese: *khǝ̄ŋʔ be willing.
Tibetan: dgoŋs-pa think, meditate, intend.
Burmese: ǝkhwaŋʔ leave, permission (Luce).
Lepcha: kón to let, to allow, to permit, to suffer, to give leave, to induce
Comments: Luce 78.
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Number: 651
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 曾開一上等溪
ZIHUI: 5146 2092
Beijing: khǝn 2
Jinan: khẽ 2
Xi'an: khẽ 2
Taiyuan: khǝŋ 2
Hankou: khǝn 2
Chengdu: khǝn 2
Yangzhou: khǝn 2
Suzhou: khǝn 2
Wenzhou: khaŋ 21
Changsha: khǝn 2
Shuangfeng: khiɛ̃ 2
Nanchang: khiɛn 2
Meixian: khɛn 2
Guangzhou: haŋ 21
Xiamen: khîŋ 2 (lit.); khan 2
Chaozhou: kheŋ 21
Fuzhou: khiŋ 2 (lit.); kheiŋ 2
Shanghai: khǝŋ 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: khǝn 2
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