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Character: 菁
Modern (Beijing) reading: jīng
Preclassic Old Chinese: ceŋ
Classic Old Chinese: ceŋ
Western Han Chinese: ceŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: cjeŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: cjeŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: cjeŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: cjeŋ
Middle Chinese: cjeŋ
English meaning : a k. of grass
Russian meaning[s]: 1) цветущий, пышный; 2) цветок порея
Comments: Used also for a homonymous *ceŋ 'be luxuriant, bushy'. Cf. also 蓁 and 青.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Radical: 140
Four-angle index: 3616
Karlgren code: 0812 |f ́
Go-on: siyau
Kan-on: sei
Japanese reading: shō;sei;aona
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[ʒ]eŋ
Meaning: luxuriant, bushy
Chinese: 菁 *ceŋ, *cēŋ luxuriant, bushy (e. g. vegetation).
Kachin: ʒaŋ3, (H) caŋ be rank, luxuriant, exuberant.
Comments: Cf. *ćĭn.
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