Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 梁

Modern (Beijing) reading: liáng

Preclassic Old Chinese: raŋ

Classic Old Chinese: raŋ

Western Han Chinese: raŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: reŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: leŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: leŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: leŋ

Middle Chinese: laŋ

English meaning : beam, pole; bridge, dam weir

Russian meaning[s]: 1) мост; перила; 2) стропила; балка, перекладина; 3) выгиб, выступ, выступающая часть; 4) запруда для ловли рыбы; 5) Лян (название княжества); 6) Лян (династия 502 - 556 гг.); 7) Лян (фамилия)

Comments: For *r- cf. Min forms: Xiamen niu², Chaozhou nio², Fuzhou lioŋ².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 75

Four-angle index: 5238

Karlgren code: 0738 a

Shijing occurrences: 35.3

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rɨaŋ

Meaning: tree, wood

Chinese: 梁 *raŋ beam, pole

Lushai: KC *Roŋ.

Comments: Digaro bă-roŋ wood. Sh. 189. Cf. PAA *rɨaŋ 'beam, rafter' + PAA *raŋ 'post, pole', SM *rɔŋ.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1195

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 梁

MC description : 宕開三平陽來

ZIHUI: 2733 2317

Beijing: liaŋ 12

Jinan: liaŋ 12

Xi'an: liaŋ 12

Taiyuan: lia_̃ 1

Hankou: niaŋ 12

Chengdu: niaŋ 12

Yangzhou: liâŋ 12

Suzhou: liaŋ 12

Wenzhou: li 12

Changsha: nian 12

Shuangfeng: niaŋ 12

Nanchang: liɔŋ 31

Meixian: liɔŋ 12

Guangzhou: lö_ŋ 12

Xiamen: liɔŋ 12

Chaozhou: liaŋ 12

Fuzhou: luɔŋ 12

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