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Number: 130
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 山開三平仙心
ZIHUI: 0103 1872
Beijing: śian 11
Jinan: śiã 11
Xi'an: śiã 11
Taiyuan: śiɛ 1
Hankou: śian 11
Chengdu: śian 11
Yangzhou: śĩ 11
Suzhou: sî 11
Wenzhou: śi 11
Changsha: siẽ 11
Shuangfeng: śî̃ 11
Nanchang: śiɛn 11
Meixian: siɛn 11
Guangzhou: šin 11
Xiamen: sian 11
Chaozhou: sieŋ 11
Fuzhou: sieŋ 11
Shanghai: sî 1
Zhongyuan yinyun: sien 1
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Modern (Beijing) reading: xiān
Preclassic Old Chinese: san
Classic Old Chinese: san
Western Han Chinese: san
Eastern Han Chinese: sjan
Early Postclassic Chinese: sjen
Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjen
Late Postclassic Chinese: sjen
Middle Chinese: sjen
English meaning : immortal [LZ]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) даосский отшельник; святой; 2) транскр. цент (американский)
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 9
Four-angle index: 977
Karlgren code: 0193 f
Vietnamese reading: tiên
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *s[ă]n
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: a k. of demon
Chinese: *san an immortal.
Tibetan: bsen a female devil (Schm.).
Kachin: son1 a malignant female nat.
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *sV́nV ( ~ *c̣-, *ʒ-)
Meaning: shaman, devil
Sino-Tibetan: *săn
Yenisseian: *seʔnVŋ
Comments and references : HGC 34.
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Yenisseian etymology :

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Proto-Yenisseian: *senVŋ
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: shaman
Ket: śɛnǝŋ5, pl. śɛnin5 / śɛni:n3; śɛnam5, pl. -in "shamaness"
Yug: sɛnǝŋ5
Kottish: šēnaŋ "witchcraft"; šēnaŋ hit "shaman"; šēnaŋākŋ "to conjure sorcery"
Comments: ССЕ 271. Werner 2, 184 (acknowledges the reconstruction but gives an utterly strange comment: "erinnert an Sin 'Mondgott' im assyrisch-babylonischen Pantheon" (?)).
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