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Modern (Beijing) reading: qiàn
Preclassic Old Chinese: khams
Classic Old Chinese: khamh
Western Han Chinese: khamh
Eastern Han Chinese: khamh
Early Postclassic Chinese: khàm
Middle Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̀m
Late Postclassic Chinese: khǝ̀m
Middle Chinese: khǝ̀m
English meaning : yawn [L.Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) недоставать, нехватать; недостаток; недостаточный; не, без; 2) задолжать; быть в долгу; задолженность, недоимка; 3) зевать; зевота
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 76
Four-angle index: 4784
Karlgren code: 0624 a-b
Go-on: kon
Kan-on: ken
Japanese reading: ken;kon;akubi
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Ghā̆m
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: yawn
Chinese: *khams yawn.
Kachin: gǝkham2 to yawn.
Lushai: hām (ham) to gape, yawn.
Kiranti: *hàkam[ä]
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Kiranti etymology :

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Proto-Kiranti: *hàkam[ä]
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Meaning: yawn
Sunwar: ham-ś 'pa-ca
Tulung: hakama
Kaling: hɔkɔme lünä
Limbu: hāmāju, khām-
Kulung: hakamma
Comments: Toba 99 *hakame.
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Entry: kha:mmaʔ, -kha:ps-/-kha:m-
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: vi.
Meaning: yawn
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Kulung dictionary :

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Entry: hakamma
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: n.
Meaning: yawn
Nepali: hāi.
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Chinese Dialects :

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Number: 103
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 咸開三去釅溪
ZIHUI: 2944 1871
Beijing: ćhian 3
Jinan: ćhiã 3
Xi'an: ćhiã 3
Taiyuan: ćhiɛ 3
Hankou: ćhian 3
Chengdu: ćhian 3
Yangzhou: ćhĩ 3
Suzhou: ćhî 31
Wenzhou: ćhi 31
Changsha: ćhiẽ 31
Shuangfeng: ćhî̃ 31
Nanchang: ćhiɛn 31
Meixian: khiam 3
Guangzhou: him 31
Xiamen: khiam 31
Chaozhou: khiǝm 31
Fuzhou: khieŋ 31
Shanghai: ćhî 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: khiem 3
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *QV[m]V
Meaning: to yawn
Sino-Tibetan: *Ghā̆m
Yenisseian: *χo(ʔ)n- (~-ń-)
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Yenisseian etymology :

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Proto-Yenisseian: *χon- (~-ń-)
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: to yawn
Ket: ɛ́ś-qɔntiŋ (Werner 1, 248)
Yug: dēsxontteŋabet́ (Кастр.), praet. dēsxontteŋōrebet́, imp. ēsxontteŋarget́; (Werner 1, 248) d-éis-χɔntiŋáget
Kottish: hońaŋ "yawning"; hońaŋākŋ "to yawn"
Comments: ССЕ 302. Werner 1, 248.
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