Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 健

Modern (Beijing) reading: jiàn

Preclassic Old Chinese: gharʔs

Classic Old Chinese: ghanh

Western Han Chinese: ghanh

Eastern Han Chinese: ghanh

Early Postclassic Chinese: ghàn

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ghǝ̀n

Late Postclassic Chinese: ghǝ̀n

Middle Chinese: gǝ̀n

English meaning : strong

Russian meaning[s]: 1) здоровый, крепкий; сильный; 2) твердый; энергичный; дельный, способный; 3) быть неутомимым (в чем-л.)

Comments: For *gh- cf. Fuzhou khiaŋ⁶ (reflecting a variant *gharʔ).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 9

Four-angle index: 6659

Karlgren code: 0249 g

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *qhăr ( ~ Gh-)

Meaning: strong

Chinese: 健 *ghars strong.

Tibetan: gar-ba strong.

Burmese: an strength.

Comments: Burm. > Jnp. (Mat.) an² to be in full strength. Mat. 171; Coblin 142-143. Cf. *ghǝ̄r.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1099

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 健

MC description : 山開三去願群

ZIHUI: 0256 1853

Beijing: ćian 3

Jinan: ćiã 3

Xi'an: ćiã 3

Taiyuan: ćiɛ 3

Hankou: ćian 3

Chengdu: ćian 3

Yangzhou: ćî̃ 3

Suzhou: ʒ́î 32

Wenzhou: ʒ́i 32

Changsha: ćiẽ 31

Shuangfeng: ʒ́î̃ 32

Nanchang: ćhiɛn 32

Meixian: khian 3

Guangzhou: kin 32

Xiamen: kian 32 (lit.); kiã 32

Chaozhou: kieŋ 22

Fuzhou: kyɔŋ 32

Shanghai: ćî 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: kien 3

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