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Modern (Beijing) reading: xīng
Preclassic Old Chinese: sēŋ
Classic Old Chinese: sēŋ
Western Han Chinese: sēŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: siēŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: siēŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: siēŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: siēŋ
Middle Chinese: sieŋ
English meaning : rank smell
Comments: Also read *sēŋ-s, MC sìeŋ id. The word is also used for a homonymous *sēŋ(-s) 'grainy grease, grease'.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0812 |a ́
Vietnamese reading: tanh
Jianchuan Bai: śɛ̃4
Dali Bai: śer4
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *sēŋ
Meaning: smell, smell of raw meat
Chinese: *sēŋ(h) raw meat; rank smell.
Burmese: saŋh to emit a pleasant odor.
Kachin: siŋ1 smell, scent; (H) usiŋ id.
Lushai: thāŋ (thān) have a smell or odour like raw flesh.
Comments: Trung čiŋ1 to stink. Ben. 85; Mat. 181. ? Cf. also Tib. śaŋs (resp.) nose.
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Number: 1698
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 梗開四平青心
ZIHUI: 5206 2589
Beijing: śiŋ 11
Jinan: śiŋ 11
Xi'an: śiŋ 11
Taiyuan: śiŋ 1
Hankou: śin 11
Chengdu: śin 11
Yangzhou: śĩ 11
Suzhou: sin 11
Wenzhou: seŋ 31
Changsha: sin 31
Shuangfeng: śin 31 (lit.); śiõ 31
Nanchang: śin 11 (lit.); śiaŋ 11
Meixian: siaŋ 11
Guangzhou: šîŋ 11
Xiamen: sîŋ 11
Chaozhou: seŋ 11
Fuzhou: siŋ 11
Shanghai: siŋ 1
Zhongyuan yinyun: siǝŋ 1
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