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Modern (Beijing) reading: kuáng
Preclassic Old Chinese: gʷaŋ
Classic Old Chinese: gwaŋ
Western Han Chinese: gwaŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: gwaŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: gwaŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: gwaŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: gwaŋ
Middle Chinese: gwaŋ
English meaning : be foolish, crazy
Russian meaning[s]: 1) бешеный (о собаке); взбеситься; безумный, сумасшедший; 2) сильный, бурный; 3) преувеличивать; 4) распущенный; 5) надменный
Comments: For *g- cf. Min forms: Xiamen kɔŋ2, Fuzhou kuoŋ2, Jianou kuaŋ9 (Chaozhou khuaŋ2 is secondary).
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 94
Four-angle index: 315
Karlgren code: 0739 o-p
Go-on: guwau
Kan-on: kuwiyau
Japanese reading: kyō+;kuruu+;kuruoshii+
Shijing occurrences: 54.3_
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kʷăŋ (~gʷ-)
Meaning: mad, foolish
Chinese: *gʷaŋ mad, foolish.
Kachin: (H) ǝgoŋ weak-minded.
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Number: 435
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 宕合三平陽群
ZIHUI: 3693 2387
Beijing: khuaŋ 12
Jinan: khuaŋ 12
Xi'an: khuaŋ 12
Taiyuan: khua_̃ 1
Hankou: khuaŋ 12
Chengdu: khuaŋ 12
Yangzhou: khuâŋ 12
Suzhou: gua_ŋ 12
Wenzhou: ʒ́yɔ 12
Changsha: kuan 12
Shuangfeng: gaŋ 12
Nanchang: khuɔŋ 12
Meixian: khɔŋ 12
Guangzhou: khuɔŋ 12
Xiamen: kɔŋ 12
Chaozhou: khuaŋ 12
Fuzhou: kuɔŋ 12
Shanghai: kua_̃ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: khuaŋ 12
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