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Number: 914
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 通合三平鍾以
ZIHUI: 1369 2683
Beijing: ẓuŋ 12
Jinan: luŋ 12
Xi'an: yŋ 12
Taiyuan: yŋ 1
Hankou: ioŋ 12
Chengdu: yoŋ 12
Yangzhou: iɔuŋ 12
Suzhou: ioŋ 12
Wenzhou: ɦyoŋ 12
Changsha: ioŋ 12
Shuangfeng: in 12
Nanchang: iuŋ 31
Meixian: juŋ 12
Guangzhou: juŋ 12
Xiamen: hiɔŋ 12
Chaozhou: ioŋ 12
Fuzhou: yŋ 12
Shanghai: ioŋ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: iuŋ 12
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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: róng
Preclassic Old Chinese: loŋ
Classic Old Chinese: loŋ
Western Han Chinese: loŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: źoŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: źoŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: joŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: joŋ
Middle Chinese: jöuŋ
English meaning : be generous, indulge; treat generously, with generosity; to refine, adorn
Comments: Also used for homonymous *loŋ 'ceremonial knife' and *loŋ 'to contain, hold'. The word also means '(what is contained) > interior, inside', and Viet. lòng may be an archaic (Han time) loan from this source; standard Sino-Viet. is dung.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 1187 a
Vietnamese reading: lòng
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lŏŋ
Meaning: ease, leisure
Chinese: *loŋ at ease, easy; pleased.
Tibetan: loŋ leisure, vacant time.
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