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Number: 976
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 臻開三平欣影
ZIHUI: 3009 2144
Beijing: in 11
Jinan: iẽ 11
Xi'an: iẽ 11
Taiyuan: iŋ 1
Hankou: in 11
Chengdu: in 11
Yangzhou: ĩ 11
Suzhou: in 11
Wenzhou: iaŋ 11
Changsha: in 11
Shuangfeng: in 11
Nanchang: in 11
Meixian: jin 11
Guangzhou: jan 11
Xiamen: un 11
Chaozhou: ɨŋ 11
Fuzhou: yŋ 11
Shanghai: iiŋ 1
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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: yīn
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʔǝr
Classic Old Chinese: ʔǝn
Western Han Chinese: ʔǝn
Eastern Han Chinese: ʔǝn
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʔɨn
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʔɨn
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʔɨn
Middle Chinese: ʔɨn
English meaning : to determine
Russian meaning[s]: 1) обильный, роскошный, цветущий, богатый; 2) многочисленный; много, множество; 3) великий; весьма, очень; 4) приветливый, любезный; 5) усердный, заботливый; 6) Инь (название союза племен, иньский период 1401-1122 г. до н. э.); иньский; 7) Инь (фамилия); [yān] темнокрасный, вишневый; [yǐn] грохот грома; грохотать
Comments: Final *-r in this hsieh-sheng series is somewhat uncertain (rhymes are ambiguous), thus *-n is also not excluded. The character is also used for a homonymous *ʔǝr 'a large crowd, in crowds', as well as for the onomatopoeic *ʔǝrʔ (MC ʔɨ́n, FQ JY 倚謹, Pek. yǐn) 'making the sound of thunder'; during L. Zhou it was also applied to OC *ʔrǝ̄n, MC ʔạ̈n (FQ 烏閑), Pek. yān, Go en, Kan an 'dark red'.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 79
Four-angle index: 6135
Karlgren code: 0448 a-d
Go-on: on
Kan-on: in
Japanese reading: in;on;en;an;ōi;akai
Shijing occurrences: 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 40.1_
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ʔɨ̆rH
Meaning: sound, noise
Chinese: *ʔǝrʔ sound of thunder.
Tibetan: ãur noise, roar of a tempest; a low, humming noise.
Burmese: unh loud.
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