Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Character: 錢

Modern (Beijing) reading: qián

Preclassic Old Chinese: ʒ́an

Classic Old Chinese: ʒan

Western Han Chinese: ʒan

Eastern Han Chinese: ʒjan

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒjen

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒjen

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒjen

Middle Chinese: ʒjen

English meaning : money [Zhanguo]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) деньги; монета; 2) цянь (десятая часть лана); яп. сена (сотая часть иены); 3) Цянь (фамилия); [jiǎn] лопата, заступ

Comments: The earliest attestation of the character is in Early Zhou for a word *ćanʔ, MC cjén (FQ 即淺), Mand. jiǎn 'hoe, weeder'. The word *ʒ́an 'money' (also a measure of weight) appears during the late Zhanguo period, and is traditionally linked with *ćanʔ 'hoe' (either because hoes were used as exchange, or because money was manufactured in a hoe-like shape); this all seems rather dubious. Viet. also has a slang word sìn 'money' - probably a later loan from the same source. For unaspirated *ʒ- cf. Min forms: Xiamen, Chaozhou cĩ², Fuzhou cieŋ², Jianou ciŋ².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 167

Four-angle index: 6791

Karlgren code: 0155 j

Vietnamese reading: tiền

Jianchuan Bai: ce7

Dali Bai: che4

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Number: 2221

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 錢

MC description : 山開三平仙從

ZIHUI: 6929 1865

Beijing: ćhian 12

Jinan: ćhiã 12

Xi'an: ćhiã 12

Taiyuan: ćhiɛ 1

Hankou: ćhian 12

Chengdu: ćhian 12

Yangzhou: ćhî̃ 12

Suzhou: zî 12

Wenzhou: ɦi 12

Changsha: ciẽ 12

Shuangfeng: ʒ́î̃ 12

Nanchang: ćhiɛn 12

Meixian: chiɛn 12

Guangzhou: čhin 12

Xiamen: cian 12 (lit.); cĩ 12; ĩ 12

Chaozhou: chĩ 12

Fuzhou: chieŋ 12

Shanghai: sî 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: chien 12

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