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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Ćam
Meaning: a large vessel
Tibetan: zem cask, barrel.
Lepcha: tŭk-čím a cup
Comments: Tib. may be borrowed from Chinese, cf. MCh. ʒjem, zjim.
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Character: 鬵
Modern (Beijing) reading: cén
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʒ́(h)ǝm
Classic Old Chinese: ʒ(h)ǝm
Western Han Chinese: ʒ(h)ǝm
Eastern Han Chinese: ʒ(h)jǝm
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒ(h)jim
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒ(h)jim
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒ(h)jim
Middle Chinese: zjim
English meaning : large cooking pot
Comments: The MC reading zjim is irregular: *ʒjim would be expected according to hsieh-sheng, and there exists another irregular MC reading - ʒjem (where ʒ- is regular, but irregular is the final -jem).
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0660 k
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Kiranti etymology :
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Proto-Kiranti: *cam ( ~ ʔc-)
Meaning: ladle (in compounds)
Tulung: korcöm flat wooden stirrer used in cooking, blɔkcam bamboo ladle
Kaling: kwɔrcam wooden ladle
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