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Number: 258
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 臻合一平魂從
ZIHUI: 1317 2168
Beijing: chuǝn 12
Jinan: chuẽ 12
Xi'an: chuẽ 12
Taiyuan: cuŋ 1
Hankou: chǝn 12
Chengdu: chǝn 12
Yangzhou: chuǝn 12
Suzhou: zǝn 12
Wenzhou: zö 12
Changsha: cǝn 12
Shuangfeng: ʒuǝn 12
Nanchang: chǝn 12
Meixian: chun 12
Guangzhou: čhyn 12
Xiamen: cun 12 (lit.); chun 12
Chaozhou: chuŋ 12
Fuzhou: couŋ 12
Shanghai: zǝŋ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: chuǝn 12
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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: cún
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʒ́hǝ̄n
Classic Old Chinese: ʒhǝ̄n
Western Han Chinese: ʒhǝ̄n
Eastern Han Chinese: ʒhǝ̄n
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒhǝ̄n
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒhǝ̄n
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒhǝ̄n
Middle Chinese: ʒon
English meaning : to be among
Russian meaning[s]: 1) существовать; быть в живых; 2) остаться; сохраниться; быть в остатке; 3) хранить, беречь, сберегать; запасать, накоплять; 4) скопляться; застояться; 5) вложить, сделать вклад, депонировать; 6) сделать визит, навестить
Comments: Most of words in the series have the MC final -ien, thus MC labialization in ʒon is most probably secondary (dialectal?); ʒien would be normally expected. For *ʒ́h- cf. Xiamen chun2, Chaozhou chuŋ2, Longdu chun2.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 39
Four-angle index: 3047
Karlgren code: 0432 a
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*cǝ̄ŋ]
Meaning: to be, sit
Burmese: LB *ʒauŋ 'sit'
Comments: Cf. also: Miji ʒuŋh, Bodo *soŋ, Chepang ćuŋʔ, Kham cuh, Kaike čhɔŋ-, LB *ʒauŋ, Sichuan *ʒVN 'sit'.
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