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Number: 606
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 梗開四入錫心
ZIHUI: 2649 0695
Beijing: śi 11
Jinan: śi 11
Xi'an: śi 11
Taiyuan: śiǝʔ 41
Hankou: śi 12
Chengdu: śi 12
Yangzhou: śiǝʔ 4
Suzhou: siôʔ 41
Wenzhou: sei 41
Changsha: si 4
Shuangfeng: śi 12
Nanchang: śit 41
Meixian: sit 41
Guangzhou: šîk 41
Xiamen: sîk 41
Chaozhou: sek 41
Fuzhou: seiʔ 41
Shanghai: sîʔ 4
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Modern (Beijing) reading: xī
Preclassic Old Chinese: sēk
Classic Old Chinese: sēk
Western Han Chinese: sēk
Eastern Han Chinese: siēk
Early Postclassic Chinese: siēk
Middle Postclassic Chinese: siēk
Late Postclassic Chinese: siēk
Middle Chinese: siek
English meaning : to cleave, split; disperse; name of the god of the East, or the sacrificing to him
Russian meaning[s]: 1) раскалывать, расщеплять; делить, отделять; 2) различать, распознавать; анализировать; разлагать (на части); анализ
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 75
Four-angle index: 2000
Karlgren code: 0857 a-b
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *śēk
Meaning: cleave, split
Chinese: *sēk cleave, split.
Tibetan: ãćheg (p. bśags, f. bśag, i. śog to break, to split, gśog / bśog (p. gśags, bśags, f. gśag, bśag, i. gśog) to cleave, to split, to tear.
Lushai: KC *śeʔ 'bite'
Kiranti: *ʒhék
Comments: Simon 10. See also *chīkʷ. Here perhaps several TB words for 'bite': Miju-Geman săk, Apatani àsɨ, Aka sik-ha-. Cf. Austric: PAA *ciek 'divide', PAN *biseqak, *bisak 'split' (see Peiros 1998, 221).
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Kiranti etymology :

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Proto-Kiranti: *ʒhék
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Meaning: cut, break
Tulung: ʒhɛk- cut notch
Kaling: 'ʒhenä ('ʒhegu) scratch (a tree)
Limbu: cekmā (cegepe) to break
Yamphu: cäkma
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Limbu dictionary :

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Entry: cɛkmaʔ, -cɛg-/-cɛk-
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: vi.
Meaning: dialectal variant of ɛkmaʔ in the vicinity of Saokrāntī to the north of Myāŋluŋ
Comments: vide ɛkmaʔ.
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Yamphu dictionary :

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Entry: cäkma
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Stem: <cäg- ; cäk->
Grammar: v.intr. & v.tr.
Meaning: to cut, hack, chop with a Gurkhali knife, using only one hand
Comments: sik.tha cäk.m.ä (stand.LP cut.INF.FCT) I'm cutting a place to stand (on the trunk of a tree). ka thenaŋ cäʔ.i.ŋ.ä (I ladder cut.NP.EXPS.FCT) I'm chopping [wood for] a ladder.
Nepali: kāṭhnu
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