Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 苙

Modern (Beijing) reading: lì

Preclassic Old Chinese: r(h)ǝp

Classic Old Chinese: r(h)ǝp

Western Han Chinese: r(h)ǝp

Eastern Han Chinese: r(h)ǝp

Early Postclassic Chinese: l(h)ip

Middle Postclassic Chinese: l(h)ip

Late Postclassic Chinese: l(h)ip

Middle Chinese: lip

English meaning : enclosure for pigs [L.Zhou]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) хлев (свиной); 2) бот. борщевик шерстистый (Heracleum lanatum, лекарственное растение)

Comments: Also read *r(h)ǝp, *g(h)rǝp, MC lip, gip, Mand. lì, jì 'a k. of plant (Heracleum lanatum)'. Viet. rạp is an archaic loanword (with a modified meaning: 'tent, booth'); standard Sino-Viet. is lập.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 140

Four-angle index: 552

Karlgren code: 0694 g

Vietnamese reading: rạp

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ri(ǝ)p

Meaning: pen, enclosure

Chinese: 苙 *r_ǝp, *g_rǝp (~-ip) pen for animals.

Tibetan: rib fence, hedge, enclosure.

Lushai: rip a cage, enclosure in which mad people, etc., are kept.

Lepcha: gríp to confine, to cage (as bird or animal)

Comments: Cf. PAA *ra:p 'shelter'.