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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: yuān
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʔʷen
Classic Old Chinese: ʔwen
Western Han Chinese: ʔwjan
Eastern Han Chinese: ʔjwan
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʔjwen
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʔjwen
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʔjwen
Middle Chinese: ʔjwen
English meaning : be bending, crawling
Comments: Also read *ʔʷenʔ (MC ʔjwén, Pek. yuǎn), *ʔʷēn (MC ʔwien, Pek. yuān), *g(h)wenʔ (MC gjwén, Pek. juàn) id.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0228 b
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[ɣʷ]ē̆n ( ~ -r, -ɫ)
Meaning: crawl
Chinese: *ʔʷē̆n to crawl as a caterpillar.
Kachin: (H) gǝ-un, kǝ-un to crawl.
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