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Character: 恬
Modern (Beijing) reading: tián
Preclassic Old Chinese: lhēm
Classic Old Chinese: lhēm
Western Han Chinese: lhjam
Eastern Han Chinese: lhjam
Early Postclassic Chinese: dhjem
Middle Postclassic Chinese: dhjem
Late Postclassic Chinese: dhjem
Middle Chinese: diem
English meaning : calm, tranquility
Russian meaning[s]: тихий, спокойный, безмятежный
Comments: For *lh cf. Xiamen thiam2, Fuzhou thaŋ2.
Radical: 61
Four-angle index: 1300
Karlgren code: 0621 b
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lēm
Meaning: calm, pacify
Lushai: thlēm to comfort, to pacify, to smoothe.
Comments: Cf. also Konyak *lǝm 'lie', (?) Tiddim lum id.
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