Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ʒuăr

Meaning: ladle

Chinese: 浚 *surs to ladle out, take from.

Tibetan: gzar ladle.

Burmese: ćwanh ladle.

Lushai: thur to take out (from a pot), fish out.

Comments: Cf. also Lush. fian a spoon, a ladle.

Chinese characters :

Character: 浚

Modern (Beijing) reading: jùn

Preclassic Old Chinese: surs

Classic Old Chinese: swǝnh

Western Han Chinese: swǝnh

Eastern Han Chinese: sjwǝnh

Early Postclassic Chinese: sjwìn

Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjwìn

Late Postclassic Chinese: sjwìn

Middle Chinese: sjwìn

English meaning : be deep, profound

Russian meaning[s]: 1) проводить воду (каналом); углублять; дренажировать; 2) извлекать, вытаскивать; обирать

Comments: Also used for a homonymous toponym (thus in Shi 32,3). Modern jùn is secondary (under the influence of 俊竣畯 etc.). Since Late Zhou the character is attested with the meaning 'to ladle out, take from' which seems to be archaic (judging by the external evidence); perhaps 'deep, profound' < 'scoopable' (?).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 6322

Karlgren code: 0468 |a ́

Shijing occurrences: 32.3, 53.1, 53.2, 53.3

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