Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 頃

Modern (Beijing) reading: qǐng

Preclassic Old Chinese: khʷeŋ

Classic Old Chinese: khweŋ

Western Han Chinese: khweŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: khjweŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: khjweŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: khjweŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: khjweŋ

Middle Chinese: khjweŋ

English meaning : be slanting, oblique

Russian meaning[s]: 1) короткий промежуток времени, момент; только что; 2) цин (мера земли в 100 му, около 6,67 га); [qīng] наклонный, косой, вм. 傾

Shuowen gloss: 頭不正也.從匕頁. [385]

Comments: In earliest texts (as well as according to the Shuowen definition) identical to 傾 *khʷeŋ q.v. Since Late Zhou the character was used also for *khʷeŋʔ (MC khjwéŋ, FQ 去穎) 'a short moment of time' (since Han also for a homonymous *khʷeŋʔ 'measure of land' - about 6.67 hectars).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 181

Four-angle index: 8119

Karlgren code: 0828 a

Shijing occurrences: 3.1, 20.3

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