Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 夾

Modern (Beijing) reading: jiá jiā

Preclassic Old Chinese: krēp

Classic Old Chinese: krēp

Western Han Chinese: krjāp

Eastern Han Chinese: kriāp

Early Postclassic Chinese: kiẹ̄p

Middle Postclassic Chinese: kiẹ̄p

Late Postclassic Chinese: kiẹ̄p

Middle Chinese: kạ̈p

English meaning : to flank, be on both sides, assist, follow close to

Russian meaning[s]: 1) сжимать, сдавливать (с двух сторон); втискивать, вставлять; 2) щипцы; брать щипцами (палочками); 3) на подкладке (об одежде); двойной; двусторонний; 4) ящичек; футляр; 5) нести подмышкой; перен. проносить тайно

Comments: Viet. gắp has a narrowed sense 'to pick up with chopsticks' (a usage also attested in Chinese, but in later periods). Regular Sino-Viet. is giáp. Another colloquial loan from the same source is probably Viet. xáp 'to approach, come near'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 37

Four-angle index: 4993

Karlgren code: 0630 a-c

Vietnamese reading: gắp

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *k(r)ēp

Meaning: pinch

Chinese: 夾 *krēp tweezers, 梜 *kēp, *krēp chop-sticks.

Kachin: lǝkap³ pinchers, sniffers, tongs.

Kiranti: Limbu kɛ:pmaʔ 'pinch'.

Comments: Cf. Austric: PAN *-kep 'seize, grasp', *cekep; *kapkap 'feel, grope'; PAA *kap / *ke:p 'pinch'.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 364

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 夾

MC description : 咸開二入洽見

ZIHUI: 1140 0081

Beijing: ćia 11

Jinan: ćia 11

Xi'an: ćia 11

Taiyuan: ćiaʔ 41

Hankou: ćia 12 (lit.); ka 12

Chengdu: ćia 12

Yangzhou: ćiaʔ 4

Suzhou: ćiaʔ 41 (lit.); kaʔ 41

Wenzhou: ka 41

Changsha: ćia 4

Shuangfeng: ka 11

Nanchang: kat 41

Meixian: kiap 42

Guangzhou: kāp 43

Xiamen: kiap 41 (lit.); khueʔ 41; gueʔ 41; ŋẽ 41

Chaozhou: kiǝp 42; koiʔ 42

Fuzhou: kiaʔ 41

Shanghai: kaʔ 4

Zhongyuan yinyun: ka 42

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