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Modern (Beijing) reading: shì
Preclassic Old Chinese: ƛhǝks
Classic Old Chinese: ƛhǝh
Western Han Chinese: ƛhǝh
Eastern Han Chinese: shǝh
Early Postclassic Chinese: shɨ̀
Middle Postclassic Chinese: shɨ̀
Late Postclassic Chinese: shɨ̀
Middle Chinese: śɨ̀
English meaning : to test, try
Russian meaning[s]: 1) пробовать, испытывать, экспериментировать; проба, испытание, опыт; 2) экзаменовать; экзамен; допытываться; исследовать; 3) сравнивать, сопоставлять; 4) пробовать (на вкус), отведывать
Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is thí. Also borrowed in Viet. as thu`'. For *ƛh- (which would normally yield MC ṭhɨ̀, replaced by a dialectal reflex) cf. Xiamen chi5, Chaozhou chi5, Fuzhou che5, Jianou chi5.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 149
Four-angle index: 6724
Karlgren code: 0918 n
Vietnamese reading: thi
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛǝ̆k
Meaning: test, get to know
Chinese: *ƛhǝks to test, try.
Tibetan: lćog(s) be able.
Burmese: kjak to know well, learn, recite.
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Number: 1726
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 止開三去志書
ZIHUI: 6107 0516
Beijing: ṣî_ 3
Jinan: ṣî_ 3
Xi'an: si_ 3
Taiyuan: si_ 3
Hankou: si_ 3
Chengdu: si_ 3
Yangzhou: si_ 3
Suzhou: sü 31
Wenzhou: si_ 31
Changsha: ṣî_ 31
Shuangfeng: ṣî_ 31
Nanchang: si_ 31
Meixian: si_ 3
Guangzhou: ši 31
Xiamen: si 31
Chaozhou: chi 31
Fuzhou: söy 31
Shanghai: si_ 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: ši_ 3
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