Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 項

Modern (Beijing) reading: xiàng

Preclassic Old Chinese: g(h)rōŋ

Classic Old Chinese: g(h)rōŋ

Western Han Chinese: grōŋ (~ ɣ-)

Eastern Han Chinese: grōŋ (~ ɣ-)

Early Postclassic Chinese: gọ̄ŋ (~ ɣ-)

Middle Postclassic Chinese: gọ̄ŋ (~ ɣ-)

Late Postclassic Chinese: gọ̄ŋ (~ ɣ-)

Middle Chinese: ɣạ́uŋ

English meaning : neck, stretch the neck

Russian meaning[s]: 1) тыльная часть шеи; шея; 2) пункт, рубрика; абзац; статья; денежная сумма; счетный суффикс дел, денежных сумм; 3) мат. член; 4) род, сорт, категория; счетный суффикс категорий; 5) большой, мощный; 6) Сян (фамилия)

Comments: A later meaning (connected with the original "neck"?) is 'class, rank, category'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 181

Four-angle index: 8064

Karlgren code: 1172 y

Vietnamese reading: hạng

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Krōŋ (? /*Kl-)

Meaning: neck

Chinese: 項 *g_rōŋʔ neck.

Burmese: khjauŋh (OB khloŋ) neck.

Comments: Cf. Austric: PAA *rɔ:ŋ / *ro:ŋ 'neck', (Usher) WMP *kVlloŋ.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1567

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 項

MC description : 江開二上講匣

ZIHUI: 7309 2355

Beijing: śiaŋ 3

Jinan: śiaŋ 3

Xi'an: xaŋ 3

Taiyuan: śia_̃ 3

Hankou: xaŋ 3

Chengdu: xaŋ 3

Yangzhou: śiâŋ 3 (lit.); xiâŋ 3

Suzhou: ɦa_ŋ 32

Wenzhou: ɦuɔ 22

Changsha: xan 31 (lit.); xan 32

Shuangfeng: ɣaŋ 32

Nanchang: hɔŋ 32

Meixian: hɔŋ 3

Guangzhou: hɔŋ 32

Xiamen: hɔŋ 32; haŋ 32

Chaozhou: haŋ 22

Fuzhou: xauŋ 32

Shanghai: ɦa_̃ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: xiaŋ 3

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