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Number: 309
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 山合一去線昌
ZIHUI: 0025 1948
Beijing: c̣huan 3
Jinan: c̣huã 3
Xi'an: pfhã 11
Taiyuan: chuä̃ 3
Hankou: chuan 3
Chengdu: chuan 3
Yangzhou: chuõ 3
Suzhou: chö 31
Wenzhou: ćhyoŋ 31
Changsha: ćhyẽ 31
Shuangfeng: thuĩ 31
Nanchang: chɔn 11
Meixian: chɔn 3
Guangzhou: čhyn 31
Xiamen: chuan 31
Chaozhou: chueŋ 31
Fuzhou: chuɔŋ 31
Shanghai: chö 1
Zhongyuan yinyun: čhyen 3
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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: chuàn
Preclassic Old Chinese: kʷrāns
Classic Old Chinese: kwrānh
Western Han Chinese: kwrānh
Eastern Han Chinese: kwrānh
Early Postclassic Chinese: kwạ̄̀n
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwạ̄̀n
Late Postclassic Chinese: kwạ̄̀n
Middle Chinese: kwạ̀n
English meaning : custom, usage
Russian meaning[s]: 1) пронизывать, нанизывать; связанный, непрерывный; ряд; 2) связать(ся); сообща; 3) пролезть; добиваться (чего-л.) нечестным путем; 4) родственные отношения; родня; 5) играть (на сцене); 6) переливать
Comments: *kʷrāns is the oldest reading of the character attested. Later for the meaning 'custom, to be accustomed' one got to use another character, 慣, while 串 acquired the reading *thons, MC ćhwèn, Mand. chuàn (Sino-Viet. xuyến), Go, Kan sen 'to bore, string' ( = 穿 q.v.). Standard Sino-Viet. for 'custom, to be accustomed' is quán. See 貫, 慣.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 2
Four-angle index: 2632
Karlgren code: 0159 e
Go-on: kuwen
Kan-on: kuwan
Japanese reading: ken;kan;tsuranuku;ugatsu;kushi
Vietnamese reading: quen
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rōɫ
Meaning: custom, habit
Chinese: *kʷrāns ( < *krōn-s) custom; usage.
Tibetan: srol usage, custom, common use, habitual practice.
Kachin: ǝron2 behaviour, habit.
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