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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: chéng
Preclassic Old Chinese: lǝŋ
Classic Old Chinese: lǝŋ
Western Han Chinese: lǝŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: źǝŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: źɨŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: źɨŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: źɨŋ
Middle Chinese: źiŋ
English meaning : to mount, ride
Comments: Also used for *lǝŋ-s, MC źìŋ, Pek. shèng 'team of four horses, chariot with team of four horses'.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0895 a-c
Shijing occurrences: 44.1, 44.2, 58.2
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lǝ̆ŋ (?)
Meaning: rise, ascend
Chinese: *lǝŋ to mount, ascend.
Tibetan: laŋ (p. laŋs, i. loŋ) to rise, get up; sloŋ, slaŋ (p. (b)slaŋs, f. (b)slaŋ, i. sloŋ(s)) to cause to rise.
Kachin: luŋ2 ascend.
Lepcha: tă-ljaŋ "the high place", the sky,the firmament, the heavens; atmosphere
Kiranti: *liŋ to climb
Comments: A contamination with *ƛā̆ŋ is possible; cf. also *liŋ 'chariot' - a source of possible contamination in Chinese.
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Kiranti etymology :

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Proto-Kiranti: *liŋ
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Meaning: to climb
Limbu: liŋmaʔ
Yamphu: riŋma
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Limbu dictionary :

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Entry: liNmaʔ, -liN-
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: vt.
Meaning: climb
Comments: cf. liNmaʔ.
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Yamphu dictionary :

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Entry: riŋma
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Stem: <riks- ; riŋ->
Grammar: v.tr.
Meaning: to climb.
Nepali: caḍhnu
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Chinese Dialects :

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Number: 874
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 曾開三平蒸船
ZIHUI: 0042 2471
Beijing: c̣hǝŋ 12
Jinan: c̣hǝŋ 12
Xi'an: c̣hǝŋ 12
Taiyuan: chǝŋ 1
Hankou: chǝn 12
Chengdu: sǝn 12
Yangzhou: chǝn 12
Suzhou: zǝn 12
Wenzhou: zeŋ 12
Changsha: ṣǝn 12
Shuangfeng: ɣin 12
Nanchang: chǝn 12
Meixian: sǝn 3
Guangzhou: šîŋ 12
Xiamen: sîŋ 12; sîŋ 32
Chaozhou: seŋ 12
Fuzhou: siŋ 12
Shanghai: zǝŋ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: čhiǝŋ 12
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