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Character: 騂
Modern (Beijing) reading: xīng
Preclassic Old Chinese: sin
Classic Old Chinese: sin
Western Han Chinese: sjǝn
Eastern Han Chinese: sjǝn
Early Postclassic Chinese: sjin
Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjin
Late Postclassic Chinese: sjin
Middle Chinese: sjeŋ
English meaning : be red-brownish
Comments: Also used for a homonymous *sin 'be well-adjusted (of horn and wood of bow)'. Xiesheng suggests that the original OC form was *sin; it should have yielded MC *sjin; the form sjeŋ thus represents a dialectal development.
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0821 c
Go-on: siyau
Kan-on: sei
Japanese reading: sei;shō;akauma;akai
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chēn
Meaning: red
Lushai: sen red, crimson, scarlet.
Comments: Tiddim san red, Lhota echẽn blood. Cf. also OC 騂 *sin 'be red-brownish'.
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