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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *χŭ
Meaning: smoke, vapour
Tibetan: (W) hu breath.
Lushai: hu vapour, gas, steam.
Comments: ? Trung ǝ1. Ben. 17. If the original meaning was 'breath', cf. perhaps also OC 休 *xu 'to rest' ( < 'breathe'?). Cf. Austric: PAA *huj 'smoke', PAN *bahu(-an) 'odor, stench'.
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Character: 熏
Modern (Beijing) reading: xūn
Preclassic Old Chinese: hun
Classic Old Chinese: hwǝn
Western Han Chinese: hwǝn
Eastern Han Chinese: hwǝn
Early Postclassic Chinese: hwɨn
Middle Postclassic Chinese: hwɨn
Late Postclassic Chinese: hwɨn
Middle Chinese: xün
English meaning : to make smoke; befumed
Russian meaning[s]: 1) подниматься (о дыме); дымиться; сжигать; 2) окуривать; коптить; копченый; 3) надушить(ся); дурманить; душить; удушливый (о запахе); 4) строго выговаривать; 5) вечерняя заря; сумерки, вм. 曛
Comments: OC rhymes are ambiguous: *hur can not be completely excluded (although the reconstruction *hun seems more probable). Regular Sino-Viet. is huân.
Radical: 86
Four-angle index: 8538
Karlgren code: 0461 a-c
Vietnamese reading: hun
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