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Modern (Beijing) reading: yí
Preclassic Old Chinese: Łaj
Classic Old Chinese: Łaj
Western Han Chinese: laj
Eastern Han Chinese: źe
Early Postclassic Chinese: źe
Middle Postclassic Chinese: je
Late Postclassic Chinese: je
Middle Chinese: je
English meaning : to transfer, move
Russian meaning[s]: 1) переселять(ся); переносить, передвигать, перемещать; переложить на (кого-л.); соответствует приставке пере- перед глаголом; 2) переменить; 3) двинуть (напр. рукой); 4) применить; 5) переслать отношение; послать официальную бумагу
Comments: A more archaic Viet. loanword is dò'i 'to move, to transfer'.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 115
Four-angle index: 4163
Karlgren code: 0003 q
Vietnamese reading: di
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛăj
Meaning: move, change
Chinese: *Łaj transfer, move.
Tibetan: rʒ́e (ṗ. brʒ́es, f. brʒ́e, i. brʒ́es) to barter.
Burmese: lajh to change, exchange, hlai to change, LB *lajx / *slajx.
Kachin: lai1, šǝlai1 pass, exceed; mǝlai3 to change; šǝbrai1 wages, pay, a reward.
Lushai: lei to buy, purchase; fine, debt (KC *k-lei).
Comments: KC: Tiddim laiʔ change, lei buy; Mikir le over, excess, profit; BG: Garo re pass, sre change, Dimasa lai pass, salai alter, change; Rawang lɛ, sǝlɛ pass, thǝlɛ alter, change. Cf. also Jnp. khǝli, khǝlai to pass, cross as on a road. Sh. 121; Ben. 64, 66; Coblin 54. There may be two roots here, but they are very hard to separate. Cf. Austric: PAA *la:j 'change, change form', PAN *aliq 'move, change place', *beli 'buy', Tai *kla:j 'to modify'.
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Number: 1251
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 止開三平支以
ZIHUI: 4448 0709
Beijing: i 12
Jinan: i 12
Xi'an: i 12
Taiyuan: i 1
Hankou: i 12
Chengdu: i 12
Yangzhou: i 12
Suzhou: i 12
Wenzhou: ɦi 12
Changsha: i 12
Shuangfeng: i 12
Nanchang: i 31
Meixian: ji 12
Guangzhou: ji 12
Xiamen: i 12
Chaozhou: i 12
Fuzhou: ie 12
Shanghai: ii 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: i 12
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