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Modern (Beijing) reading: jì
Preclassic Old Chinese: ćǝ̄js
Classic Old Chinese: cǝ̄jh
Western Han Chinese: cǝ̄jh
Eastern Han Chinese: cǝ̄ś
Early Postclassic Chinese: cǝ̄ś
Middle Postclassic Chinese: cǝ̄̀j
Late Postclassic Chinese: cǝ̄̀j
Middle Chinese: cièj
English meaning : to ford, cross
Russian meaning[s]: 1) помогать, спасать; 2) удаваться (о деле); справиться (с делом); 3) пригодный, годный, удовлетворительный; 4) переправиться, переехать (реку); 5) прибавлять, увеличивать; наполнять; 6) Цзи (фамилия); [jǐ] сокр. р. Цзихэ (в провинции Хэнань)
Comments: Also used for a homonymous *ćǝ̄j-s 'to stop, cease'; for *ćǝ̄jʔ, MC cíej (FQ 子禮), Pek. jǐ 'be numerous; be beautiful, dignified, stately' (normally reduplicated: *ćǝ̄jʔ-ćǝ̄jʔ).
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 2718
Shijing occurrences: 34.1, 34.2, 54.2_
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćǝ̄jH (~ ʒ́-)
Meaning: obstacle, hinder
Chinese: *ćǝ̄j-s to stop, cease; to ford, cross ("surmount an obstacle").
Burmese: ćhih to put up a barrier, stop, hinder.
Comments: For Ch. 'ford' cf. perhaps separately Burm. ćajh 'shallow place'.
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Number: 2264
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 蟹開四去霽精
ZIHUI: 3444 0648
Beijing: ći 3
Jinan: ći 11
Xi'an: ći 3
Taiyuan: ći 3
Hankou: ći 3
Chengdu: ći 3
Yangzhou: ći 3
Suzhou: ci 31
Wenzhou: cei 31
Changsha: ci 31
Shuangfeng: ći 31
Nanchang: ći 31
Meixian: ci 3
Guangzhou: čai 31
Xiamen: ce 31
Chaozhou: ci 31
Fuzhou: ca 31
Shanghai: zi 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: ci 2; ci 3
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