Change viewing parameters
Select another database

Chinese characters :

Search within this database
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: chún
Preclassic Old Chinese: dhur
Classic Old Chinese: dhun
Western Han Chinese: dhun
Eastern Han Chinese: ʒhun
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒhun
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒhun
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒhun
Middle Chinese: ʒ́win
English meaning : bright, enlighten
Russian meaning[s]: светлый, яркий*
Comments: Also read *thūr, MC thon id.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Radical: 86
Four-angle index: 9999
bigchina-reading,bigchina-ochn,bigchina-cchn,bigchina-wchn,bigchina-echn,bigchina-epchn,bigchina-mpchn,bigchina-lpchn,bigchina-mchn,bigchina-meaning,bigchina-oshanin,bigchina-comment,bigchina-stibet,bigchina-radical,bigchina-oshval,

Search within this database


Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Search within this database
Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *thūr (~dh-,-ō-)
Meaning: bright, shine
Chinese: *thūr, *dhur bright, enlighten, 暾 *thūr sun rising.
Burmese: thwanh to gleam, shine, inflame.
Comments: Luce 55. Cf. also Karen *dwe.4L, Motuo der, Naga Mao dei-wo, Chepang dolh, Qiang dɛ-wu 'burn'.
stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-burm,stibet-comments,

Search within this database

Select another database
Change viewing parameters
Total pages generatedPages generated by this script
4143442399390
Help
StarLing database serverPowered byCGI scripts
Copyright 1998-2003 by S. StarostinCopyright 1998-2003 by G. Bronnikov
Copyright 2005-2014 by Phil Krylov