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Modern (Beijing) reading: yíng
Preclassic Old Chinese: weŋ
Classic Old Chinese: weŋ
Western Han Chinese: weŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: weŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: weŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: weŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: weŋ
Middle Chinese: jweŋ
English meaning : to lay out, plan, build
Russian meaning[s]: 1) военный лагерь; казармы; форт; казарменный, военный; 2) батальон; дивизион; 3) строить; заниматься; предпринимать; предприятие; 4) заведовать, распоряжаться; вести предприятие; 5) замышлять; добиваться
Comments: Also used for a homonymous onomatopoeic *weŋ 'be buzzing about'. The Viet. loanword (having a later derived meaning 'palace; military camp') is colloquial; regular Sino-Viet. is doanh.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 86
Four-angle index: 1451
Karlgren code: 0843 f
Vietnamese reading: dinh
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *qʷĕŋ (~Gʷ-)
Meaning: round, surround
Chinese: *weŋ to demarcate, to encamp; to surround.
Tibetan: sgoŋ (p. bsgoŋs, f. bsgoŋ, i. sgoŋ(s)) to make round, globular.
Burmese: wǝuŋh be round, to surround, as a forest.
Comments: Cf. PAA *wi:ŋ 'return, round about', Yao khwiŋ.4 to surround, coil around.
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Chinese Dialects :

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Number: 2268
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 梗合三平清以
ZIHUI: 3602 2611
Beijing: iŋ 12
Jinan: iŋ 12
Xi'an: iŋ 12
Taiyuan: iŋ 1
Hankou: in 12
Chengdu: in 12
Yangzhou: ĩ 12
Suzhou: in 12
Wenzhou: ɦyoŋ 12
Changsha: in 12
Shuangfeng: in 12
Nanchang: in 12
Meixian: jaŋ 12
Guangzhou: jîŋ 12
Xiamen: îŋ 12 (lit.); iã 12; îŋ 12 (lit.); iã 12
Chaozhou: iã 12
Fuzhou: iŋ 12 (lit.); iaŋ 12
Shanghai: iiŋ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: iǝŋ 12
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