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Number: 224
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
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MC description : 宕合一平唐見
ZIHUI: 0342 2383
Beijing: kuaŋ 11
Jinan: kuaŋ 11
Xi'an: kuaŋ 11
Taiyuan: kua_̃ 1
Hankou: kuaŋ 11
Chengdu: kuaŋ 11
Yangzhou: kuâŋ 11
Suzhou: kua_ŋ 11
Wenzhou: kuɔ 11
Changsha: kuan 11
Shuangfeng: kaŋ 11
Nanchang: kuɔŋ 11
Meixian: kuɔŋ 11
Guangzhou: kuɔŋ 11
Xiamen: kuaŋ 11
Chaozhou: kuaŋ 11
Fuzhou: kuɔŋ 11
Shanghai: kua_̃ 1
Zhongyuan yinyun: kuaŋ 1
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Modern (Beijing) reading: guāng
Preclassic Old Chinese: kʷāŋ
Classic Old Chinese: kwāŋ
Western Han Chinese: kwāŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: kwāŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: kwāŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwāŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: kwāŋ
Middle Chinese: kwâŋ
English meaning : be bright, glorious; light, brightness, glory
Russian meaning[s]: 1) свет; ясный, светлый; излучение, сияние; блестящий, гладкий; 2) слава, блеск; блестящий, славный; 3) добро, милость, снисхождение; вежл. Ваша милость; Ваш; 4) дочиста, без остатка; 5) нагой; обнажить, выставить напоказ; 6) только; 7) Гуан (фамилия)
Comments: Also read *kʷāŋ-s, MC kwầŋ, Mand. guàng 'be extensive' (probably < *kʷāŋʔ-s, cf. 廣). Schüssler prefers to read it as *kʷāŋ with level tone, but Karlgren seems to be right in distinguishing it phonetically from *kʷāŋ 'be bright' (a level-tone rhyme for *kʷāŋs > EZ *kʷāŋh is quite normal). Viet. quáng 'to dazzle, blind' is a colloquial loan (reflecting an unattested *kʷāŋ-s > MC *kwầŋ 'be bright, dazzle' ?); standard Sino-Viet. is quang.
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 10
Four-angle index: 7333
Karlgren code: 0706 a-e
Vietnamese reading: quáng
Jianchuan Bai: kuã1-
Dali Bai: kua6-
Bijiang Bai: qã1-, kuã1-
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