Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Character: 勉

Modern (Beijing) reading: miǎn

Preclassic Old Chinese: marʔ

Classic Old Chinese: mán

Western Han Chinese: mán

Eastern Han Chinese: mán

Early Postclassic Chinese: mén

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mén

Late Postclassic Chinese: mén

Middle Chinese: mén

English meaning : to strive, insist, make effort

Russian meaning[s]: 1) прилагать усилия; стараться; усердно; 2) принуждать, уговаривать, воодущевлять

Comments: Viet. mến is a colloquial loanword (with a somewhat modified meaning 'to strive' > 'to love, like, esteem'); regular Sino-Viet. is miễn. For *m- cf. Xiamen bian³, Chaozhou mieŋ³, Fuzhou mieŋ³. As in some other cases, MC mén is not quite regular (*mwǝ́n would be a normal reflex of *marʔ).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 19

Four-angle index: 7580

Karlgren code: 0222 c

Vietnamese reading: mến

Shijing occurrences: 35.1, 35.4

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Number: 691

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 勉

MC description : 山開三上獼明

ZIHUI: 0517 1787

Beijing: mian 2

Jinan: miã 2

Xi'an: miã 2

Taiyuan: miɛ 2

Hankou: mian 2

Chengdu: mian 2

Yangzhou: mî̃ 2

Suzhou: mî 32

Wenzhou: mi 22

Changsha: miẽ 2

Shuangfeng: mî̃ 2

Nanchang: miɛn 2

Meixian: miɛn 11

Guangzhou: min 22

Xiamen: bian 2

Chaozhou: mieŋ 21

Fuzhou: mieŋ 2

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