Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Character: 王

Modern (Beijing) reading: wáng wàng [wǎng] [yù]

Preclassic Old Chinese: whaŋ whaŋs

Classic Old Chinese: whaŋ

Western Han Chinese: whaŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: whaŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: whaŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: whaŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: whaŋ

Middle Chinese: waŋ wàŋ

Fanqie: 余狂 [a] 喻貺 [b]

Rhyme class: 陽 [a] 漾 [b] 養 [c] 沃 [d]

English meaning : king

Russian meaning[s]: 1) князь, царь; король; королевский; 2) совершенный правитель; 3) Ван (фамилия); [wàng] 1) княжить, править; 2) см. 旺; [yù] см. 玉

Shuowen gloss: 天下所歸往也. 董仲舒曰. 古之造文者. 三畫而連其中謂之王. 三者. 天地人也. 而參通之者王也. 孔子曰. 一貫三為王. 凡王之屬皆從王.

Comments: Also read *whaŋ-s, MC wàŋ 'be king over, govern'. Standard Sino-Viet. is vu'o'ng. For *wh- cf. Chaozhou heŋ2.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 96

Four-angle index: 312

Karlgren code: 0739 a-h

Vietnamese reading: vua

Shijing occurrences: 10.3, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 40.2, 40.3

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Number: 116

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 王

MC description : 宕合三平陽云

ZIHUI: 3769 2399

Beijing: uaŋ 12

Jinan: uaŋ 12

Xi'an: uaŋ 12

Taiyuan: va_̃ 1

Hankou: uaŋ 12

Chengdu: uaŋ 12

Yangzhou: uâŋ 12

Suzhou: ɦua_ŋ 12

Wenzhou: ɦyɔ 12

Changsha: uan 12

Shuangfeng: aŋ 12

Nanchang: uɔŋ 31

Meixian: vɔŋ 12

Guangzhou: uɔŋ 12

Xiamen: ɔŋ 12

Chaozhou: uaŋ 12

Fuzhou: uɔŋ 12

Shanghai: ua_̃ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: uaŋ 12

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