Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 507

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 味

MC description : 止合三去未微

ZIHUI: 0724 1262

Beijing: uei 3

Jinan: uei 3

Xi'an: vei 3

Taiyuan: vei 3

Hankou: uei 3

Chengdu: uei 3

Yangzhou: uǝi 3

Suzhou: vi 32 (lit.); mi 32

Wenzhou: mei 32

Changsha: uei 31 (lit.); uei 32

Shuangfeng: ui 31

Nanchang: ui 32

Meixian: vi 3

Guangzhou: mei 32

Xiamen: bi 32

Chaozhou: bi 32

Fuzhou: muei 32

Shanghai: vi 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: vei 3

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Chinese characters :

Character: 味

Modern (Beijing) reading: wèi

Preclassic Old Chinese: mǝts

Classic Old Chinese: mǝć

Western Han Chinese: mǝś

Eastern Han Chinese: mwǝś

Early Postclassic Chinese: mwɨś

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mwɨ̀j

Late Postclassic Chinese: mwɨ̀j

Middle Chinese: mwɨ̀j

English meaning : taste [LZ]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) вкус; привкус; 2) запах; аромат; вонь; 3) интерес; 4) изящество; прелесть; 5) наслаждаться; смаковать; 6) счетный суффикс лекарств

Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is vị. Since the Chinese word also means (in later times) 'interest', Viet. muối 'interesting' may be traced back to the same source. For *m- cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou bi⁶, Fuzhou muoi⁶, Jianou mi⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 30

Four-angle index: 5328

Karlgren code: 0531 g

Go-on: mi

Kan-on: bi

Japanese reading: mi+;aji+;ajiwau+

Vietnamese reading: mùi

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *m(r)ɨ̆ (~-ŭ; -t)

Meaning: taste

Chinese: 味 *mǝts taste.

Tibetan: bro to taste, to smell, brod taste.

Kachin: mu¹ to taste good.

Comments: Thankur khǝŋǝmш̀ be tasty. Shimon 18.