Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 160

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 央

MC description : 宕開三平陽影

ZIHUI: 1135 2357

Beijing: iaŋ 11

Jinan: iaŋ 11

Xi'an: iaŋ 11

Taiyuan: ia_̃ 1

Hankou: iaŋ 11

Chengdu: iaŋ 11

Yangzhou: iâŋ 11

Suzhou: iaŋ 11

Wenzhou: i 11

Changsha: ian 11

Shuangfeng: iaŋ 11

Nanchang: iɔŋ 11

Meixian: jɔŋ 11

Guangzhou: jö_ŋ 11

Xiamen: iɔŋ 11 (lit.); ŋ 11

Chaozhou: iaŋ 11

Fuzhou: yɔ 11

Shanghai: iã 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: iaŋ 1

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Chinese characters :

Character: 央

Modern (Beijing) reading: yāng

Preclassic Old Chinese: ʔaŋ

Classic Old Chinese: ʔaŋ

Western Han Chinese: ʔaŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: ʔaŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʔaŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʔaŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʔaŋ

Middle Chinese: ʔaŋ

English meaning : middle, center

Russian meaning[s]: 1) центр, середина; половина; 2) конец; окончиться; 3) просить

Comments: Used also for a homonymous *ʔaŋ (also with a variant *ʔraŋ, MC ʔäiŋ) 'to be tinkling, chiming, striking (e. g. bells)'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 37

Four-angle index: 5096

Karlgren code: 0718 a-b

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ʔăŋ

Meaning: middle, centre

Chinese: 央 *ʔaŋ centre, middle.

Kachin: gǝ-aŋ¹ a middle, midst, centre.

Comments: Cf. also Shaiyang (Tani) aŋ 'heart', Idu huŋ id.