Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 命

Modern (Beijing) reading: mìng

Preclassic Old Chinese: mriŋs

Classic Old Chinese: mriŋh

Western Han Chinese: mriŋh

Eastern Han Chinese: mriŋh

Early Postclassic Chinese: mìŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mìŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: mìŋ

Middle Chinese: mä̀iŋ

English meaning : to order, command, appoint; order, degree, charge, mandate

Russian meaning[s]: 1) приказ; указ, декрет; распоряжение, приказание; приказывать, предписывать; командовать; заставлять; 2) судьба, участь; удел; рок; судьбы страны; 3) жизнь; 4) называть; обозначать

Comments: Also used metaphorically: '(heavenly) order' > 'fate, lot, life'. Viet. mạng is colloquial; standard Sino-Viet. is mệnh. Min forms reflect *m-: Xiamen mia⁶, biŋ⁶, Chaozhou mia⁶, Fuzhou, Jianou miaŋ⁶. The word regularly rhymes in *-in(h) in Shijing, hence the reconstruction *mriŋ-s for Early Zhou.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 30

Four-angle index: 2085

Karlgren code: 0762 a-b

Vietnamese reading: mạng

Shijing occurrences: 21.1, 21.2, 50.3, 51.3_

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mrV̆ŋ(H)

Meaning: order, command

Chinese: 命 *mriŋs order, command.

Burmese: minʔ order, command.

Kachin: muŋ² an order, instruction.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 511

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 命

MC description : 梗開三去映明

ZIHUI: 0730 2529

Beijing: miŋ 3

Jinan: miŋ 3

Xi'an: miŋ 3

Taiyuan: miŋ 3

Hankou: min 3

Chengdu: min 3

Yangzhou: mĩ 3

Suzhou: min 32

Wenzhou: meŋ 32

Changsha: min 32

Shuangfeng: min 31; min 32

Nanchang: min 32 (lit.); miaŋ 32

Meixian: miaŋ 3

Guangzhou: mîŋ 32

Xiamen: bîŋ 32

Chaozhou: mia 32

Fuzhou: miŋ 32 (lit.); miaŋ 32

Shanghai: miŋ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: miǝŋ 3

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