Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 2045

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 緣

MC description : 山合三平仙以

ZIHUI: 4878 2015

Beijing: yan 12

Jinan: iã 12

Xi'an: iã 12; yã 12

Taiyuan: yɛ 1

Hankou: yan 12

Chengdu: yan 12

Yangzhou: yî̃ 12

Suzhou: iö 12

Wenzhou: ɦy 12

Changsha: yẽ 12

Shuangfeng: uĩ 12

Nanchang: yɔn 31

Meixian: jan 12

Guangzhou: jyn 12

Xiamen: ian 12

Chaozhou: ueŋ 12

Fuzhou: yɔŋ 12

Shanghai: yö 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: ien 12

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Chinese characters :

Character: 緣

Modern (Beijing) reading: yuán

Preclassic Old Chinese: Łon (~ -r)

Classic Old Chinese: Łwan

Western Han Chinese: lwan

Eastern Han Chinese: źwan

Early Postclassic Chinese: źwen

Middle Postclassic Chinese: jwen

Late Postclassic Chinese: jwen

Middle Chinese: jwen

English meaning : hem (of robe) [L.Zhou]

Comments: Cf. also a colloquial loan in Viet.: viền 'to hem, to border'. Also used for homonymous *Łon (-r) 'to go along, follow; reason, destination' and *Łon (-r) 'to climb a tree'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 0

Four-angle index: 0

Karlgren code: 0171 d

Vietnamese reading: duyên

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ƛ[ua]n

Meaning: follow, pass along

Chinese: 緣 *Łon (~-r) go along, follow.

Kachin: (H) gǝlen, khǝlen to pass along, as from one to another.

Lushai: lōn to cause to pass from one to another in succession.