Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 1860

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 監

MC description : 咸開三平銜見

ZIHUI: 4148 1822

Beijing: ćian 11

Jinan: ćiã 11

Xi'an: ćiã 11

Taiyuan: ćiɛ 1

Hankou: ćian 11

Chengdu: ćian 11

Yangzhou: ćî̃ 11

Suzhou: ćî 11 (lit.); ke_ 11

Wenzhou: ka 31

Changsha: kan 11

Shuangfeng: kã 31

Nanchang: kan 11

Meixian: kam 3

Guangzhou: kām 11

Xiamen: kam 11

Chaozhou: kam 11

Fuzhou: kaŋ 11

Shanghai: ke_ 1

Zhongyuan yinyun: kiam 1

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Chinese characters :

Character: 監

Modern (Beijing) reading: jiān

Preclassic Old Chinese: krām

Classic Old Chinese: krām

Western Han Chinese: krām

Eastern Han Chinese: krām

Early Postclassic Chinese: kạ̄m

Middle Postclassic Chinese: kạ̄m

Late Postclassic Chinese: kạ̄m

Middle Chinese: kạm

English meaning : to look at, watch, inspect, supervise; to mirror oneself; a mirror

Russian meaning[s]: 1) наблюдать, надзирать, инспектировать, контролировать; инспектор, контролер, ревизор; 2) тюрьма; [jiàn] 1) чин, чиновник; древн. евнух; 2) смотреть, наблюдать; 3) стар. академия; воспитанник академии; 4) Цзянь (фамилия)

Comments: Also read *krām-s, MC kạ̀m, Mand. jiàn id. A later meaning is 'inspection' > 'jail, prison' (whence Viet. giam id.). In Viet. cf. also giọ'm 'to sound out'; khám 'prison'.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 108

Four-angle index: 628

Karlgren code: 0609 a-b

Vietnamese reading: giám

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