Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 522

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 委

MC description : 止合三上紙影

ZIHUI: 1201 1251

Beijing: uei 2

Jinan: uei 2

Xi'an: uei 2

Taiyuan: vei 2

Hankou: uei 2

Chengdu: uei 2

Yangzhou: uǝi 2

Suzhou: ue_ 2

Wenzhou: u 21

Changsha: uei 11

Shuangfeng: ui 2

Nanchang: ui 2

Meixian: vi 11

Guangzhou: uai 21

Xiamen: ui 2

Chaozhou: ui 21

Fuzhou: uei 2

Shanghai: ue_ 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: uei 2

Chinese characters :

Character: 委

Modern (Beijing) reading: wěi

Preclassic Old Chinese: ʔʷajʔ

Classic Old Chinese: ʔwáj

Western Han Chinese: ʔwáj

Eastern Han Chinese: ʔwáj

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʔwáj

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʔwáj

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʔwáj

Middle Chinese: ʔwé

English meaning : to send, order; entrust [LZ]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) назначить, уполномочить; 2) командировать; делегировать; поручить; 3) снять с себя, сложить; отговариваться; бросить; 4) результат, конец; 5) действительно, правда; 6) сокр. комитет; член комитета; 7) собираться, скапливаться; 8) вянуть; приходить в упадок, см. 萎; 9) Вэй (фамилия); [wēi] 1) извилистый, кривой; 2) легкий, свободный

Comments: Also used for a homonymous *ʔʷajʔ 'to bend, curve' (possibly a variant of 宛 *ʔʷarʔ q.v.). Note that the reading *ʔʷajʔ with all the listed meanings appears only since Late Zhou. Before that the character was only used for *ʔʷaj (MC ʔwe, FQ 於為, Mand. wēi) in several compounds: 委遲 *ʔʷaj-Łhǝj 'be winding' (here it is usually written with the 9th radical), 委佗 *ʔʷaj-lāj, 委蛇 *ʔʷaj-laj 'be graceful, compliant, gracious'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 38

Four-angle index: 8843

Karlgren code: 0357 a

Vietnamese reading: u`y

Shijing occurrences: 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 47.1

Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *k(h)uajH ( ~ *k(h)ʷɨ̄j)

Meaning: hooked, bent

Chinese: 瘣 *g_ūjʔ sick, deformed (e. g. tree), hunch-backed.

Tibetan: dgje to bend, to be curving or crooked.

Burmese: kwijʔ to bend round, be courved; kwijh to bend, curve, draw together at the ends.

Kachin: mǝkhai¹ to hook, (H) khai be hooked.

Lushai: kuai (koiʔ) bend or draw (as a bow); to hook, koi (koiʔ) be crooked, bent; KC *-koi.

Comments: BG: Dimasa sugui bend, gugui bent. Sh. 47, 427; Ben. 67. Tib. dgje can be alternatively compared with OCh. 委 *ʔwajʔ bend, Jnp. (H) siŋ-gji to bend, yielding a reconstruction *ɣʷăjH.