Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 養

Modern (Beijing) reading: yǎng

Preclassic Old Chinese: lhaŋʔ

Classic Old Chinese: lháŋ

Western Han Chinese: lháŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: zháŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: zháŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: zháŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: zháŋ

Middle Chinese: jáŋ

English meaning : to nourish, feed, rear

Russian meaning[s]: 1) кормить, растить, воспитывать; содержать; разводить; 2) родить, принести (напр. сына); 3) держать в качестве приемного ребенка; приемный; 4) древн. повар; 5) кислород; 6) Ян (фамилия); [yàng] 1) воспитывать в себе (напр. волю); 2) заботиться (напр. о родителях); угождать

Comments: Also read *lhaŋʔ-s, MC jàŋ, Mand. yàng 'to keep, support'; used also for a homonymous *lhaŋʔ 'be longing, grieved'. OC *lh- (which would normally yield MC zj-) is indicated only by Xiamen iɔŋ⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 184

Four-angle index: 5792

Vietnamese reading: du'õ'ng

Shijing occurrences: 44.1_

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lɨăŋH

Meaning: nourish, guard

Chinese: 養 *lhaŋʔ nourish, feed; bring up, develop.

Burmese: kjauŋh to feed, tend, as cattle, LB *kluŋx.

Comments: Trung laŋ² to pasture.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 2118

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 養

MC description : 宕開三上養以

ZIHUI: 7402 2363

Beijing: iaŋ 2

Jinan: iaŋ 2

Xi'an: iaŋ 2

Taiyuan: ia_̃ 2

Hankou: iaŋ 2

Chengdu: iaŋ 2

Yangzhou: iâŋ 2

Suzhou: iaŋ 32

Wenzhou: ɦi 22

Changsha: ian 2

Shuangfeng: iaŋ 2

Nanchang: iɔŋ 2

Meixian: jɔŋ 11

Guangzhou: jö_ŋ 22

Xiamen: iɔŋ 2 (lit.); iɔŋ 32

Chaozhou: iaŋ 21

Fuzhou: yɔŋ 2

Shanghai: iã 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: iaŋ 2

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