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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: lì
Preclassic Old Chinese: rhit
Classic Old Chinese: rhit
Western Han Chinese: rhjǝt
Eastern Han Chinese: rhjǝt
Early Postclassic Chinese: lhjit
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lhjit
Late Postclassic Chinese: lhjit
Middle Chinese: lit
English meaning : chestnut (Castanea mollissima)
Comments: For *rh- cf. Xiamen lik7, Fuzhou lek7. During LZ used for a homonymous *r(h)it 'solid, compact, dense'.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0403 a-c
Shijing occurrences: 50.1_
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rĭt (s-)
Meaning: a k. of nut
Chinese: *rhit chestnut.
Tibetan: śid hazel-nut.
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Number: 965
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 臻開三入質來
ZIHUI: 2698 0619
Beijing: li 3
Jinan: li 3
Xi'an: li 11
Taiyuan: liǝʔ 41
Hankou: ni 12
Chengdu: ni 12
Yangzhou: liǝʔ 4
Suzhou: liôʔ 42
Wenzhou: li 42
Changsha: ni 4
Shuangfeng: ni 31
Nanchang: lit 41
Meixian: lit 42
Guangzhou: lö_t 42
Xiamen: lîk 42 (lit.); lat 42
Chaozhou: lak 42
Fuzhou: leiʔ 42
Shanghai: lîʔ 42
Zhongyuan yinyun: li 43
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