Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ʒhē̆ŋ

Meaning: rice, grain

Chinese: 精 *ceŋ fine and pure rice.

Lushai: fāŋ rice (poetical word) (cf. also faŋ a grain).

Lepcha: kŭn-coŋ maize, Indian corn, Zea maize

Chinese characters :

Character: 精

Modern (Beijing) reading: jīng

Preclassic Old Chinese: ceŋ

Classic Old Chinese: ceŋ

Western Han Chinese: ceŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: cjeŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: cjeŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: cjeŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: cjeŋ

Middle Chinese: cjeŋ

English meaning : fine and pure rice

Russian meaning[s]: 1) тонкий; отборный; точный; 2) хитроумный; искусный; 3) без примеси, чистый; совершенный, рафинированный; эссенция; экстракт; сущность; семя; сперма; очищать рис; рафинировать; 4) энергия; дух, душа; привидение; 5) очень, весьма; 6) дочиста, без остатка

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 119

Four-angle index: 3611

Karlgren code: 0812 |g ́

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1876

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 精

MC description : 梗開三平清精

ZIHUI: 4737 2562

Beijing: ćiŋ 11

Jinan: ćiŋ 11

Xi'an: ćiŋ 11

Taiyuan: ćiŋ 1

Hankou: ćin 11

Chengdu: ćin 11

Yangzhou: ćĩ 11

Suzhou: cin 11

Wenzhou: ceŋ 11

Changsha: cin 11

Shuangfeng: ćin 11

Nanchang: ćin 11 (lit.); ćiaŋ 11

Meixian: cin 11

Guangzhou: čîŋ 11

Xiamen: cîŋ 11 (lit.); cĩ 11; ciã 11

Chaozhou: ceŋ 11

Fuzhou: ciaŋ 11

Shanghai: ciŋ 1

Zhongyuan yinyun: ciǝŋ 1

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