Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 269

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 戎

MC description : 通合三平東日

ZIHUI: 2051 2678

Beijing: ẓuŋ 12

Jinan: luŋ 12

Xi'an: voŋ 12

Taiyuan: zuŋ 1

Hankou: ioŋ 12

Chengdu: zoŋ 12

Yangzhou: lɔuŋ 12

Suzhou: zoŋ 12

Wenzhou: zoŋ 12

Changsha: ioŋ 12

Shuangfeng: in 12

Nanchang: iuŋ 31

Meixian: juŋ 12

Guangzhou: juŋ 12

Xiamen: ʒiɔŋ 12

Chaozhou: zoŋ 12

Fuzhou: yŋ 12

Zhongyuan yinyun: žiuŋ 12

Character: 戎

Modern (Beijing) reading: róng

Preclassic Old Chinese: nuŋ

Classic Old Chinese: nuŋ

Western Han Chinese: nǝuŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: ńǝuŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: ńɨuŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ńuŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: ńuŋ

Middle Chinese: ńüŋ

English meaning : weapon; military

Russian meaning[s]: 1) оружие; воин, солдат; война; военная колесница; военный, войсковой; боевой; 2) жуны (некитайские, тюркские племена Запада); 3) великий; крупный; 4) Жун (фамилия); [nóng] вост. диал. ты, Вы

Comments: For *n cf. Xiamen ʒiɔŋ², Fuzhou üŋ², Chaozhou zoŋ². The character is used also for a number of homonymous words: *nuŋ 'be great' (metaphorically used also for 'you' in the Daya section of the Shijing); *nuŋ 'aid, help'; *nuŋ 'bushy'. The latter meaning later evolved into 'soft fur, down, wool' and (since Tang) is denoted by the character 絨.

It is not to be excluded that with the meaning 'bushy' the character was actually read *noŋ: it is probably the same as 茸 *noŋ (MC ńöuŋ) 'soft, fluffy'; is used in the binome 蒙戎 (probably *mōŋ-noŋ), which rhymes in *-oŋ in Shi 37.3. Min readings are: Xiamen 絨 ʒiɔŋ², 茸 liɔŋ², Chaozhou zoŋ², Fuzhou üŋ².

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 62

Four-angle index: 6810

Karlgren code: 1013 a-d

Vietnamese reading: nhung

Shijing occurrences: 37.3_

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