Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 62

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 元

MC description : 山合三平元疑

ZIHUI: 0337 2017

Beijing: yan 12

Jinan: yã 12

Xi'an: yã 12

Taiyuan: yɛ 1

Hankou: yan 12

Chengdu: yan 12

Yangzhou: yî̃ 12

Suzhou: iö 12

Wenzhou: ńy 12

Changsha: yẽ 12

Shuangfeng: uĩ 12

Nanchang: ńyɔn 31

Meixian: ńian 12

Guangzhou: jyn 12

Xiamen: guan 12

Chaozhou: ŋueŋ 12

Fuzhou: ŋuɔŋ 12

Shanghai: yö 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: yen 12

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Chinese characters :

Character: 元

Modern (Beijing) reading: yuán

Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋon

Classic Old Chinese: ŋwan

Western Han Chinese: ŋwan

Eastern Han Chinese: ŋwan

Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋwan

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋwǝn

Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋwǝn

Middle Chinese: ŋʷǝn

English meaning : be at the head, first, eldest, principal

Russian meaning[s]: 1) голова; глава; главный, первый; 2) начало; начальный, первоначальный; основной, исконный, вм. 原; 3) юань; доллар; иена; монета; 4) большой; 5) совершенный; 6) мат. неизвестное; 7) цикл в 60 лет; 8) юаньская (монгольская) династия (1280 - 1367 гг.); монгольская эпоха; 9) 13-е число (в телеграммах); 10) Юань (фамилия)

Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is nguyên; Viet. ngọn may reflect a variant *ŋon-s. For *ŋ- cf. Xiamen guan², Chaozhou ŋueŋ², Fuzhou ŋuoŋ², Jianou ŋüiŋ².

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 10

Four-angle index: 7292

Karlgren code: 0257 a-c

Vietnamese reading: ngọn

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