Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 256

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 如

MC description : 遇合三平魚日

ZIHUI: 1172 0902

Beijing: ẓu 12

Jinan: lu 3

Xi'an: vu 11

Taiyuan: zu 1

Hankou: y 12

Chengdu: zu 12

Yangzhou: lu 12

Suzhou: zü 12

Wenzhou: zi_ 12

Changsha: y 12

Shuangfeng: y 12

Nanchang: з̂ 31

Meixian: ji 12

Guangzhou: jy 12

Xiamen: ʒu 12

Chaozhou: zu 12

Fuzhou: y 12

Shanghai: zü 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: žiu 12

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Chinese characters :

Character: 如

Modern (Beijing) reading: rú

Preclassic Old Chinese: na

Classic Old Chinese: na

Western Han Chinese: na

Eastern Han Chinese: ńa

Early Postclassic Chinese: ńo

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ńo

Late Postclassic Chinese: ńo

Middle Chinese: ńö

English meaning : be like

Russian meaning[s]: 1) походить; вроде; наподобие; 2) например; как то; 3) если, если бы; 4) или; 5) уехать (отправиться) в...

Shuowen gloss: 從隨也.從女.從口. [620]

Comments: There also exists a reading *na-s, MC ńö̀ (FQ 人恕). Also used for a homonymous *na 'to go to'. Standard Sino-Viet. is nhu'. For *n- cf. Min readings: Xiamen ʒu³, Chaozhou zu³, Fuzhou ü³.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 38

Four-angle index: 1083

Karlgren code: 0094 g-i

Vietnamese reading: ná

Shijing occurrences: 10.1, 10.3, 23.2, 24.2, 26.1, 26.5, 28.1, 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 34.3, 35.2, 37.4, 38.2, 38.3, 47.1, 47.2, 47.3, 51.3, 54.4, 55.1, 55.2, 55.3, 57.2

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ńă (-n)

Meaning: equal, be alike

Chinese: 如 *na be similar, like, 然 *nan so, thus, be like.

Tibetan: mńan, mńam like, alike, equal, same.

Comments: Cf. also perhaps Tujia (xu³) ńi¹, Zeme pele-ne 'all', Tib.: Xiaxe ha-no id.; Dulong sɨ-naʔ id.