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Number: 1946
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 梗開三平庚明
ZIHUI: 7686 2526
Beijing: miŋ 12
Jinan: miŋ 12
Xi'an: miŋ 12
Taiyuan: miŋ 1
Hankou: min 12
Chengdu: min 12
Yangzhou: mĩ 12
Suzhou: min 12
Wenzhou: meŋ 12
Changsha: min 12
Shuangfeng: min 12
Nanchang: min 31
Meixian: min 12
Guangzhou: mîŋ 12
Xiamen: bîŋ 12
Chaozhou: meŋ 12
Fuzhou: miŋ 12
Shanghai: miŋ 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: miǝŋ 12
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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: míng
Preclassic Old Chinese: mreŋ
Classic Old Chinese: mreŋ
Western Han Chinese: mreŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: mreŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: meŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: meŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: meŋ
Middle Chinese: mäiŋ
English meaning : to sing, make sounds (of animals and musical instruments)
Russian meaning[s]: 1) петь; кричать; пенье; крик; звук; звучать; 2) заставить звучать, заиграть на..., ударять; 3) говорить; возвещать; 4) жаловаться, плакать; 5) сигнал; салют
Shuowen gloss: 鳥聲也.從鳥口.
Comments: For *m- cf. Min: Xiamen biŋ2, Chaozhou meŋ2, Fuzhou miŋ2.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 196
Four-angle index: 4501
Karlgren code: 0827 a-c
Jianchuan Bai: mɛ7
Dali Bai: mer7
Bijiang Bai: ma7
Shijing occurrences: 2.1, 34.2_, 34.3
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mrĕŋ
Meaning: cry (of animals, birds)
Chinese: *mreŋ cry of birds, sound of animals generally.
Tibetan: smreŋ, smraŋ word, speech.
Burmese: mrań to sound, cry (of birds).
Comments: Luce 63.
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