Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 2218

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 醒

MC description : 梗開四上迥心

ZIHUI: 6821 2594

Beijing: śiŋ 2

Jinan: śiŋ 2

Xi'an: śiŋ 2

Taiyuan: śiŋ 2

Hankou: śin 2

Chengdu: śin 2

Yangzhou: śĩ 2

Suzhou: sin 2

Wenzhou: seŋ 21

Changsha: sin 2

Shuangfeng: śin 2 (lit.); śiõ 2

Nanchang: sin 2 (lit.); siaŋ 2

Meixian: siaŋ 2

Guangzhou: šîŋ 21

Xiamen: sîŋ 2 (lit.); chĩ 2

Chaozhou: chẽ 21

Fuzhou: siŋ 2

Shanghai: siŋ 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: siǝŋ 1

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Chinese characters :

Character: 醒

Modern (Beijing) reading: xǐng

Preclassic Old Chinese: shēŋʔ

Classic Old Chinese: shḗŋ

Western Han Chinese: shḗŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: shiḗŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: shiḗŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: shiḗŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: shiḗŋ

Middle Chinese: síeŋ

English meaning : to become sober [L.Zhou]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) протрезвиться; 2) проснуться, пробудиться; бодрствовать; 3) понять, уразуметь; 4) привлечь внимание (интерес)

Comments: Also read *shēŋ, *shēŋ-s, MC sieŋ (FQ 桑經), sìeŋ (FQ 蘇佞) id. Since Han the word has acquired also a more abstract meaning: 'to wake up, to become conscious'. For *sh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen chĩ³, Chaozhou chẽ³.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 164

Four-angle index: 397

Karlgren code: 0812 |b ́

Vietnamese reading: ti`nh

Jianchuan Bai: śẽ4

Dali Bai: śer4

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