Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 線

Modern (Beijing) reading: xiàn

Preclassic Old Chinese: sars

Classic Old Chinese: sanh

Western Han Chinese: sanh

Eastern Han Chinese: sjanh

Early Postclassic Chinese: sjèn

Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjèn

Late Postclassic Chinese: sjèn

Middle Chinese: sjèn

English meaning : thread [L.Zhou]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) нить; леска; проволока; нитяный; вязаный; 2) линия; черта; трасса; линейный; 3) перен. нить; конец клубка; подход, ключ (напр. к вопросу)

Comments: Hsieh-sheng and Sino-Viet. suggest rather an OC form like *sors, which would
normally yield MC sjwèn, in which case loss of labialisation in MC would be
secondary. On the other hand, the Sino-Viet. form can go back to a dialectal MC
*sjwèn with secondary labialisation on analogy with 泉 (MC ʒjwen, q.v.). The
choice between OC *sars and *sors is thus not quite clear. A more usual writing
of this word (since Tang) is **. The same word with the specialized meaning
'gland' is now written as 腺.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 120

Four-angle index: 5510

Karlgren code: 0237 e

Vietnamese reading: tuyến

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *sVr (?)

Meaning: thread

Chinese: 線 *s[a]rs thread.

Tibetan: sran-bu thread, yarn.

Comments: Luce 61. Hsieh-sheng and the Sino-Viet. form tuyến suggest rather an OCh. form like *sors, which would normally yield MCh. sjwèn, in which case loss of labialisation in MCh would be secondary. On the other hand, the Sino-Viet. form can go back to a dialectal MCh. sjwèn with secondary labialisation on analogy with 泉 (MCh ʒjwen, q.v.). The choice between OCh. *sars and *sors is thus not quite clear. Cf. Austric: PAA *sVr 'to thread', PAN *SuRSuR.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 2046

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 線

MC description : 山開三去線心

ZIHUI: 4775 1887

Beijing: śian 3

Jinan: śiã 3

Xi'an: śiã 3

Taiyuan: śiɛ 3

Hankou: śian 3

Chengdu: śian 3

Yangzhou: śî̃ 3

Suzhou: sî 31

Wenzhou: śi 31

Changsha: siẽ 31

Shuangfeng: śî̃ 31

Nanchang: śiɛn 31

Meixian: siɛn 3

Guangzhou: šin 31

Xiamen: sian 31 (lit.); san 31 (lit.); suã 31

Chaozhou: suã 32

Fuzhou: siaŋ 31

Shanghai: sî 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: sien 3

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