Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 854

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 貞

MC description : 梗開三平清知

ZIHUI: 6297 2051

Beijing: c̣ǝn 11

Jinan: c̣ẽ 11

Xi'an: c̣ẽ 11

Taiyuan: cǝŋ 1

Hankou: cǝn 11

Chengdu: cǝn 11

Yangzhou: cǝn 11

Suzhou: cǝn 11

Wenzhou: caŋ 11

Changsha: c̣ǝn 11

Shuangfeng: ćin 11

Nanchang: cǝn 11

Meixian: cǝn 11

Guangzhou: čîŋ 11

Xiamen: cîŋ 11

Chaozhou: ceŋ 11

Fuzhou: tiŋ 11

Shanghai: cǝŋ 1

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Chinese characters :

Character: 貞

Modern (Beijing) reading: zhēn ~ zhēng

Preclassic Old Chinese: treŋ

Classic Old Chinese: treŋ

Western Han Chinese: ṭeŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: ṭeŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: ṭeŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṭeŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: ṭeŋ

Middle Chinese: ṭeŋ

Fanqie: 知嬰

Rhyme class: 庚

English meaning : to test, try out, correct

Russian meaning[s]: 1) прямой; правильный; честный; 2) добродетельный; целомудренный, чистый

Shuowen gloss: 卜問也. 從卜. 貝以為贄. 一曰. 鼎省聲. 京房所說.

Comments: Used also for a homonymous (perhaps originally same word) *treŋ 'lower trigram of divinatory hexagram'. A later semantic development is ('tried out, corrected' >) 'chaste, pure'.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 154

Four-angle index: 7992

Karlgren code: 0834 g-i

Vietnamese reading: trinh

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