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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: xiǎng
Preclassic Old Chinese: snaŋ
Classic Old Chinese: n̥aŋ
Western Han Chinese: n̥aŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: ń̥aŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: śaŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: śaŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: śaŋ
Middle Chinese: śaŋ
English meaning : bring food to (e. g. workers in field)
Russian meaning[s]: вм.
Comments: Also read *snaŋʔ, MC śáŋ; *snaŋ-s, MC śàŋ id.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Radical: 184
Four-angle index: 5709
Karlgren code: 0730 c
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *năŋ
Meaning: give, bestow
Chinese: *snaŋ, -ŋʔ, -ŋs bring food to (e. g. workers in field).
Tibetan: gnaŋ (p. gnaŋ(s), i. gnoŋ) to give, to bestow, to confer, to allow, permit.
Burmese: hnaŋh to give, deliver over, transfer.
Comments: Sh. 38; Luce 74. Here perhaps Kaike naŋ-pa 'full'.
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