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Modern (Beijing) reading: xī
Preclassic Old Chinese: sŋǝp (~ h-)
Classic Old Chinese: ŋ̥ǝp
Western Han Chinese: ŋ̥ǝp
Eastern Han Chinese: ŋ̥ǝp
Early Postclassic Chinese: hip
Middle Postclassic Chinese: hip
Late Postclassic Chinese: hip
Middle Chinese: xip
English meaning : to inhale, to absorb [L.Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) вдыхать, втягивать; вдох; затянуться (напр. дымом); курить; всасывать, потягивать; впитывать; 2) привлекать
Comments: In Viet. cf. also hó'p 'to sip', húp 'to drink (soup etc.)'.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 30
Four-angle index: 6350
Karlgren code: 0681 j
Vietnamese reading: hấp
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ŋŭp ( ~ ɨ̆p, -uap)
Meaning: inhale
Chinese: *sŋǝp ( ~ xǝp) inhale.
Tibetan: rŋub (p. (b)rŋubs, f. brŋub, i. rŋubs to draw in (air)).
Comments: Simon 22; Peiros-Starostin 213; Coblin 98. Cf. Austric: PAA *sǝNʔa:p, PAN *qaŋab, Tai *hŋap 'yawn, open the mouth wide'.
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Number: 351
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 深開三入緝曉
ZIHUI: 0705 0691
Beijing: śi 11
Jinan: śi 11
Xi'an: śi 11
Taiyuan: śiǝʔ 41
Hankou: ći 12
Chengdu: ći 12
Yangzhou: śiǝʔ 4
Suzhou: śiôʔ 41
Wenzhou: śiai 41
Changsha: śi 4
Shuangfeng: śi 12
Nanchang: śit 41 (lit.); ćit 41
Meixian: khip 41
Guangzhou: khap 41
Xiamen: khip 41
Chaozhou: khip 41
Fuzhou: ŋeiʔ 41
Shanghai: śîʔ 4
Zhongyuan yinyun: xi 42
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