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Modern (Beijing) reading: lán
Preclassic Old Chinese: rām
Classic Old Chinese: rām
Western Han Chinese: rām
Eastern Han Chinese: rām
Early Postclassic Chinese: lām
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lām
Late Postclassic Chinese: lām
Middle Chinese: lâm
English meaning : indigo (Polygonum tinctorium)
Russian meaning[s]: 1) бот. индиго; 2) синий; 3) Лань (фамилия)
Comments: The regular Sino-Viet. form is lam; Viet. chàm points to some archaic cluster (*g-rām ?). For *l- cf. Min forms: Xiamen na2, Chaozhou lam2, Fuzhou, Jianou laŋ2.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 140
Four-angle index: 634
Karlgren code: 0609 k
Go-on: ran
Kan-on: ran
Japanese reading: ran;ai
Vietnamese reading: chàm
Dali Bai: la2
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rām
Meaning: indigo
Chinese: *rām indigo.
Tibetan: rams id.
Comments: Sh. 39.
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Number: 2375
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 咸開一平談來
ZIHUI: 5663 1686
Beijing: lan 12
Jinan: lã 12
Xi'an: lã 12
Taiyuan: lä̃ 1
Hankou: nan 12
Chengdu: nan 12
Yangzhou: lɛ̃ 12
Suzhou: le_ 12
Wenzhou: la 12
Changsha: nan 12
Shuangfeng: nã 12
Nanchang: lan 31
Meixian: lam 12
Guangzhou: lām 12
Xiamen: lam 12 (lit.); nã 12
Chaozhou: lam 12
Fuzhou: laŋ 12
Shanghai: le_ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: lam 12
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