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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *khʷĕŋ ( ~ ghʷ-, qhʷ-, Ghʷ-)
Meaning: slanting
Chinese: *khʷeŋ slanting, 傾 *khʷeŋ incline.
Kachin: nkhjeŋ2 to lean, be aslant; (H) gjeŋ, n-gjeŋ, kjeŋ, dǝkjeŋ id.
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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: qǐng
Preclassic Old Chinese: khʷeŋ
Classic Old Chinese: khweŋ
Western Han Chinese: khweŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: khjweŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: khjweŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: khjweŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: khjweŋ
Middle Chinese: khjweŋ
English meaning : be slanting, oblique
Russian meaning[s]: 1) короткий промежуток времени, момент; только что; 2) цин (мера земли в 100 му, около 6,67 га); [qīng] наклонный, косой, вм.
Shuowen gloss: 頭不正也.從匕頁. [385]
Comments: In earliest texts (as well as according to the Shuowen definition) identical to 傾 *khʷeŋ q.v. Since Late Zhou the character was used also for *khʷeŋʔ (MC khjwéŋ, FQ 去穎) 'a short moment of time' (since Han also for a homonymous *khʷeŋʔ 'measure of land' - about 6.67 hectars).
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 181
Four-angle index: 8119
Karlgren code: 0828 a
Shijing occurrences: 3.1, 20.3
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Chinese Dialects :

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Number: 1329
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 梗合三上靜溪
ZIHUI: 7308 2585
Beijing: ćhiŋ 2
Jinan: ćhiŋ 2
Xi'an: ćhiŋ 2
Taiyuan: ćhiŋ 2
Hankou: ćhyn 2
Chengdu: ćhyn 2
Yangzhou: ćhĩ 2
Suzhou: ćhin 2
Wenzhou: ćhyoŋ 21
Changsha: ćhin 2
Shuangfeng: thuǝn 2
Nanchang: ćhin 2
Meixian: khin 11
Guangzhou: khîŋ 21
Xiamen: khîŋ 2
Chaozhou: kheŋ 21
Fuzhou: khiŋ 2
Shanghai: ćhiŋ 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: khyǝŋ 2
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