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Character: 熸
Modern (Beijing) reading: jiān
Preclassic Old Chinese: ćam
Classic Old Chinese: cam
Western Han Chinese: cam
Eastern Han Chinese: cjam
Early Postclassic Chinese: cjem
Middle Postclassic Chinese: cjem
Late Postclassic Chinese: cjem
Middle Chinese: cjem
English meaning : extinguish, destroy
Comments: Also written as 殲 in Shijing, which is probably a later graphic substitution: the writing 殲 would presuppose OCh. *c-.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0660 m
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćɨam (~ ʒ́-)
Meaning: finish, extinguish
Chinese: 熸 *ćam extinguish, destroy (also written as 殲 in Shijing, which is probably a later graphic substitution: the writing 殲 would presuppose OCh. *c-).
Tibetan: ćhom be finished, accomplished, ãʒ́oms (p. bźom, gźom, f. gz̀om, i.ćhom) destroy; subdue.
Burmese: ćum be full, complete, с́humh to come to the end, to die.
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