Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 2214

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 選

MC description : 山合三上獼心

ZIHUI: 6693 2009

Beijing: śyan 2

Jinan: śyã 2

Xi'an: śiã 2

Taiyuan: śyɛ 2

Hankou: śian 2; śyan 2

Chengdu: śyan 2

Yangzhou: śyî̃ 2

Suzhou: sî 2

Wenzhou: śy 21

Changsha: siẽ 2

Shuangfeng: suĩ 2

Nanchang: śyɔn 2

Meixian: siɛn 2

Guangzhou: šyn 21

Xiamen: suan 2

Chaozhou: sueŋ 21

Fuzhou: souŋ 2

Shanghai: sî 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: syen 2

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Chinese characters :

Character: 選

Modern (Beijing) reading: xuǎn

Preclassic Old Chinese: sonʔ

Classic Old Chinese: swán

Western Han Chinese: swán

Eastern Han Chinese: sjwán

Early Postclassic Chinese: sjwén

Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjwén

Late Postclassic Chinese: sjwén

Middle Chinese: sjwén

English meaning : to choose, select

Russian meaning[s]: 1) выбирать, избирать; выборы; избрание; 2) отбирать, подбирать; селекция; компилировать; сборник, антология; 3) мгновение, миг; 4) робкий, трусливый; [xuàn] аттестовать чиновника; аттестация; [huán] кольцо, вм. 鍰

Comments: Also read *sonʔ-s, MC sjwèn (FQ 息絹) id. During Early Zhou the character was mostly used for *sōnʔ (*sōrʔ ?), MC swấn, Mand. suàn 'to count' - which later started to be written as 算 q.v. In Han time the character was also used for *srōt, MC ṣwạt, Mand. shuā 'a small measure of weight'. ? Cf. Tib. gson 'hear, perceive'.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 162

Four-angle index: 6621

Karlgren code: 0433 f

Vietnamese reading: tuyê`n

Shijing occurrences: 26.3_

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