Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 貶

Modern (Beijing) reading: biǎn

Preclassic Old Chinese: premʔ

Classic Old Chinese: prém

Western Han Chinese: prjám

Eastern Han Chinese: prám

Early Postclassic Chinese: pém

Middle Postclassic Chinese: pém

Late Postclassic Chinese: pém

Middle Chinese: pém

English meaning : to diminish, weaken

Russian meaning[s]: 1) унижать; осуждать, порицать; снижать; 2) понижать в должности; разжаловать; уволить; 3) колоть; игла

Comments: In MC also read pɨ́m. Sino-Viet. biếm reflects rather MC *pèm, but there seems also to exist a regular reflex biê`m < *pém.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 154

Four-angle index: 6444

Karlgren code: 0641 d

Vietnamese reading: biếm

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Pam

Meaning: subdue; be subdued, remain

Chinese: 貶 *p(r)amʔ to diminish.

Tibetan: ãpham (p. pham) be beaten, conquered (OT: be diminished, reduced, found wanting, of lesser quality).

Lepcha: bam remain

Kiranti: Yamphu pen- 'sit' (?)

Comments: Thankur pǝm sit, Meithei pham id.; Garo bam-at subdue, bam submit; sit; Kanauri bam be defeated, pham defeat, win; Kham phùm to sit crouched. Ben. 125; Coblin 63-64.

Kiranti etymology :

Proto-Kiranti: *pen (?)

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Meaning: to sit

Yamphu: pem-ma (pen-)

Yamphu dictionary :

Entry: pemma

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Stem: <pen-/pess- ; pen- ; pe:->

Grammar: v.intr.

Meaning: 1) to sit 2) to live, to stay somewhere 3) to remain, to stay on

Comments: 1) ab.e, säŋma, i.bex pen.ja.siʔ. (come.IMP mother's_younger_sister this.LOC sit.eat.SUP) Come, auntie, to sit [and rest] here. 2) pe:.n.ji.ŋ.ä hola, ni:.yak sum.yak pe:.n.ji.ŋ.ä. (sit.NP.DU.EXPS.FCT holā two.day three.day sit.NP.DU.EXPS.FCT) We'll stay [in the city] for two or three days, I think. 3) hago ek hapta.doʔ pel.leʔ.m.ä. (now ek haphtā.like sit.stop.INF.FCT) I'm only staying on for another week [before going away].

Nepali: basnu

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1533

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 貶

MC description : 咸開三上琰幫

ZIHUI: 6312 1772

Beijing: pian 2

Jinan: piã 2

Xi'an: piã 2

Taiyuan: piɛ 2

Hankou: pian 2

Chengdu: pian 2

Yangzhou: pî̃ 2

Suzhou: pî 2

Wenzhou: pi 21

Changsha: piẽ 2

Shuangfeng: pî̃ 2

Nanchang: piɛn 2

Meixian: piɛn 3

Guangzhou: pin 21

Xiamen: pian 2

Chaozhou: pieŋ 21

Fuzhou: pieŋ 2

Shanghai: pî 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: pien 2

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