Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *năk

Meaning: reason, agree

Chinese: 若 *nak agree, conform to, accord with.

Tibetan: gnag, mnag well considered, brnag to devise, contrive, take care.

Burmese: ǝnak sense, explanation.

Chinese characters :

Character: 若

Modern (Beijing) reading: ruò

Preclassic Old Chinese: nak

Classic Old Chinese: nak

Western Han Chinese: nak

Eastern Han Chinese: ńak

Early Postclassic Chinese: ńak

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ńak

Late Postclassic Chinese: ńak

Middle Chinese: ńak

English meaning : such, thus, like this, like that

Russian meaning[s]: 1) походить; вроде; наподобие; 2) если; если бы; 3) что же касается...; что до...; 4) древн. ты; твой

Comments: A distributive (-k) derivation from 如 *na q.v. For *n cf. Xiamen ʒiɔk⁸, Chaozhou ziak⁸, Fuzhou iok⁸.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 140

Four-angle index: 1111

Karlgren code: 0777 a-e

Shijing occurrences: 58.2_

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 843

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 若

MC description : 宕開三入藥日

ZIHUI: 5387 0295

Beijing: ẓuo 3

Jinan: luǝ 3

Xi'an: vo 11

Taiyuan: zǝʔ 41; zaʔ 41

Hankou: io 12

Chengdu: zo 12

Yangzhou: lâʔ 4

Suzhou: za_ʔ 42

Wenzhou: ɦia 42

Changsha: io 4

Shuangfeng: iû 12

Nanchang: lɔk 41

Meixian: jɔk 42

Guangzhou: jö_k 42

Xiamen: ʒiɔk 42 (lit.); ʒua 32; nã 32

Chaozhou: ziak 42

Fuzhou: yɔʔ 42

Shanghai: zaʔ 42

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