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Character: 量

Modern (Beijing) reading: liáng liàng

Preclassic Old Chinese: raŋs

Classic Old Chinese: raŋh

Western Han Chinese: raŋh

Eastern Han Chinese: reŋh

Early Postclassic Chinese: lèŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: lèŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: lèŋ

Middle Chinese: làŋ

English meaning : a measure of capacity

Russian meaning[s]: 1) измерять, мерить; вешать; 2) совещаться, советоваться; 3) соразмеряться с...; [liàng] 1) мера; вес; 2) характер, натура; размах

Comments: The word is derived from *raŋ, MC laŋ, Mand. liáng, Viet. (colloquial) lù'o'ng 'to measure out'; the derived word is, however, attested earlier (already in Shujing), whereas *raŋ 'to measure' first appears only in L.Zhou texts. For *r in *raŋ cf. Xiamen liɔŋ², Chaozhou nĩẽ², Fuzhou lioŋ²; in *raŋs cf. Xiamen liaŋ⁶, Chaozhou liaŋ⁴, Fuzhou lioŋ⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 166

Four-angle index: 442

Karlgren code: 0737 a-c

Vietnamese reading: lụ'o'ng

Jianchuan Bai: liã4

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *răŋ (k-)

Meaning: count

Chinese: 量 *raŋ to measure, *raŋs a measure.

Tibetan: sgraŋs enumerate, ãgraŋ to count, sraŋ pair of scales, balance; steel-yard; weight; bgroŋ to count, ãgraŋ to number, to count, sgraŋ (p. bsgraŋs, f. bsgraŋ, i. sgroŋ) to enumerate.

Burmese: khraŋ to measure (cf. also khjaŋʔ to weigh, measure, consider); raŋh to invest, hraŋh to pay (a bill, debt).

Kachin: ǝraŋ capital, a sum.

Lepcha: fróŋ, frón, a-frón

Comments: (?) cf. also Lush. ṭhīŋ (ṭhīn) to collect a debt. Bod. 82, 165; Luce 71; Coblin 108. ? Cf. Austric: PAA *rieŋ 'hundred, thousand', PAN *bilaŋ 'count'.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1548

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 量

MC description : A: 宕開三平陽來; B: 宕開三去漾來

ZIHUI: A: 6852 2318; B: 6852 2321

Beijing: A: liaŋ 12; B: liaŋ 3

Jinan: A: liaŋ 12; B: liaŋ 3

Xi'an: A: liaŋ 12; B: liaŋ 3

Taiyuan: A: lia_̃ 1; B: lia_̃ 3

Hankou: A: niaŋ 12; B: niaŋ 3

Chengdu: A: niaŋ 12; B: niaŋ 3

Yangzhou: A: liâŋ 12; B: liâŋ 3

Suzhou: A: liaŋ 12; B: liaŋ 32

Wenzhou: A: li 12; B: li 32

Changsha: A: nian 12; B: nian 31 (lit.); nian 32

Shuangfeng: A: niaŋ 12; B: niaŋ 32

Nanchang: A: liɔŋ 31; B: liɔŋ 32

Meixian: A: liɔŋ 12; B: liɔŋ 3

Guangzhou: A: lö_ŋ 12; B: lö_ŋ 32

Xiamen: A: liɔŋ 12; B: liɔŋ 32 (lit.); liaŋ 32

Chaozhou: A: niẽ 12; B: liaŋ 22

Fuzhou: A: luɔŋ 12; B: luɔŋ 32

Shanghai: A: ; B:

Zhongyuan yinyun: A: ; B:

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