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Character: 狹
Modern (Beijing) reading: xiá
Preclassic Old Chinese: ghrēp
Classic Old Chinese: ghrēp
Western Han Chinese: ɣrjāp
Eastern Han Chinese: ɣriāp
Early Postclassic Chinese: ɣiẹ̄p
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ɣiẹ̄p
Late Postclassic Chinese: ɣiẹ̄p
Middle Chinese: ɣạ̈p
English meaning : narrow
Russian meaning[s]: 1) узкий, тесный, сжатый; сужать, стеснять; 2) ограниченный (о человеке)
Comments: Not in Schüssler's dictionary (although attested already in Shujing). Regular Sino-Viet. is hiệp; cf. perhaps also xép 'small, narrow'. For *gh cf. Xiamen ueʔ8.
Radical: 94
Four-angle index: 5000
Karlgren code: 0630 e
Vietnamese reading: hẹp
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kh(r)ēp ( ~ gh-)
Meaning: narrow
Burmese: kjap be narrow.
Kachin: gjip3 be narrow.
stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-burm,stibet-kach,stibet-kir,
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Kiranti etymology :
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Proto-Kiranti: *khíp ( ~ x-)
Meaning: tight
Tulung: khip- tighten
Kaling: 'khamnä ('khaptu) pull firm (waistband), khapsipä tight (of clothes)
kiret-prnum,kiret-meaning,kiret-tul,kiret-kal,
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