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Character: 拑
Modern (Beijing) reading: qián
Preclassic Old Chinese: gh(r)am
Classic Old Chinese: gh(r)am
Western Han Chinese: gh(r)am
Eastern Han Chinese: gh(r)am
Early Postclassic Chinese: ghem
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ghem
Late Postclassic Chinese: ghem
Middle Chinese: gem
English meaning : pinch
Russian meaning[s]: клещи; зажимать, см. 鉗, 箝
Comments: For *gh- cf. Fuzhou khieŋ2.
Radical: 64
Four-angle index: 1027
Karlgren code: 0606 h
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *krɨam
Meaning: pinch, nip off
Tibetan: ãgrum (p. grum) to pinch or nip off (the point of a thing), cut off, prune, lop.
Kachin: krum1 to trim, prume, lop (as dead branches from a tree).
Comments: Irregular gh- in OCh. is due to the influence of *khăm tongs q. v. stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-tib,stibet-kach,stibet-comments,
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