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Modern (Beijing) reading: jiān
Preclassic Old Chinese: kēm
Classic Old Chinese: kēm
Western Han Chinese: kjam
Eastern Han Chinese: kjam
Early Postclassic Chinese: kjem
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kjem
Late Postclassic Chinese: kjem
Middle Chinese: kiem
English meaning : to combine; at the same time
Russian meaning[s]: 1) совмещать; по совместительству; 2) и то и другое; параллельно; вместе с тем; наравне; 3) объединить; присоединить; прибрать к рукам, захватить; 4) удвоенный, двойной; подряд; захватывать, охватывать
Comments: Regular Sino-Viet. is kiêm.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 12
Four-angle index: 5434
Karlgren code: 0627 a
Vietnamese reading: kèm
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kʷēm
Meaning: combine, together
Chinese: *kēm(s) combine.
Kachin: (H) kom to side with.
Lushai: kōm (kom) associate with.
Lepcha: kjóm 1 to be one upon another, to cover (as horse or any animal in copulation 2. to be united or act in concert (two)
Comments: Cf. *g(h)ʷV̄m.
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Number: 889
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 咸開四平添見
ZIHUI: 0369 1825
Beijing: ćian 11
Jinan: ćiã 11
Xi'an: ćiã 11
Taiyuan: ćiɛ 1
Hankou: ćian 11
Chengdu: ćian 11
Yangzhou: ćî̃ 11
Suzhou: ćî 11
Wenzhou: ći 11
Changsha: ciẽ 11
Shuangfeng: ćî̃ 11
Nanchang: ćiɛn 11
Meixian: kiam 11
Guangzhou: kim 11
Xiamen: kiam 11
Chaozhou: kiǝm 11
Fuzhou: kieŋ 11
Shanghai: ćî 1
Zhongyuan yinyun: kiem 1
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