Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 頂

Modern (Beijing) reading: dǐng

Preclassic Old Chinese: tēŋʔ

Classic Old Chinese: tḗŋ

Western Han Chinese: tḗŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: tiḗŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: tiḗŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: tiḗŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: tiḗŋ

Middle Chinese: tíeŋ

English meaning : top of head; top, summit

Russian meaning[s]: 1) макушка головы; вершина, верхушка; крыша; нести на голове; 2) шарик на шапке чиновника; счетный суффикс шапок и паланкинов; 3) в высшей степени, весьма, крайне; 4) нагнуть голову; бить лбом; подставить лоб (напр. ветру); отражать, давать отпор; 5) подпирать, поддерживать; 6) впереди; 7) раньше, до; 8) подменять, подставлять

Comments: Not in Schüssler's dictionary (although attested already in Yijing).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 181

Four-angle index: 8091

Karlgren code: 0833 e

Vietnamese reading: d_i`nh

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tēŋH (~d-)

Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology

Meaning: top

Chinese: 頂 *tēŋʔ top of the head.

Tibetan: steŋ that which is above, top.

Comments: Simon 15. Cf. *tjɨ̆ŋ(H).

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1328

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 頂

MC description : 梗開四上迥端

ZIHUI: 7307 2533

Beijing: tiŋ 2

Jinan: tiŋ 2

Xi'an: tiŋ 2

Taiyuan: tiŋ 2

Hankou: tin 2

Chengdu: tin 2

Yangzhou: tĩ 2

Suzhou: tin 2

Wenzhou: teŋ 21

Changsha: tin 2

Shuangfeng: tin 2

Nanchang: tin 2

Meixian: taŋ 2

Guangzhou: tîŋ 21

Xiamen: tîŋ 2

Chaozhou: teŋ 21

Fuzhou: tiŋ 2

Shanghai: tiŋ 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: tiǝŋ 2

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