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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *P(r)ɨ̆m
Meaning: sail
Chinese: *brǝm (~ -am) sail.
Burmese: phum classifier for nets, sails.
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Chinese characters :

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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: fān
Preclassic Old Chinese: bram
Classic Old Chinese: bram
Western Han Chinese: bram
Eastern Han Chinese: bram
Early Postclassic Chinese: bam
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bam
Late Postclassic Chinese: bam
Middle Chinese: bwɨm
English meaning : sail [Han]
Comments: Also read fàn, MC bwɨ̀m, OC *bram-s 'to sail, go on sail'. Viet. buồm is colloquial; regular Sino-Viet. is phàm. For *bh cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou phaŋ2, Fuzhou phuŋ2, Jianou phoŋ2.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0625 d
Vietnamese reading: buồm
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Chinese Dialects :

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Number: 265
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 咸合三平凡奉
ZIHUI: 1581 1648
Beijing: fan 12; fan 11
Jinan: fã 11
Xi'an: fã 11
Taiyuan: fä̃ 1
Hankou: fan 12
Chengdu: fan 12
Yangzhou: fɛ̃ 11
Suzhou: ve_ 12
Wenzhou: va 12
Changsha: fan 12
Shuangfeng: ɣuã 12
Nanchang: фuan 31
Meixian: fam 12
Guangzhou: fān 12
Xiamen: phɔŋ 12 (lit.); phaŋ 12
Chaozhou: huam 12
Fuzhou: xuaŋ 12
Shanghai: ve_ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: fan 12
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