Character: 泉
Modern (Beijing) reading: quán
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʒuar
Classic Old Chinese: ʒwan
Western Han Chinese: ʒwan
Eastern Han Chinese: ʒjwan
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒjwen
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒjwen
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒjwen
Middle Chinese: ʒjwen
English meaning : source, spring
Russian meaning[s]: 1) источник, родник, ключ; 2) стар. деньги; богатство
Comments: For *ʒ- cf. Min forms: Xiamen, Chaozhou cũã2, Fuzhou cuoŋ2, Jianou cüiŋ2. The word always rhymes in *-ar (not *-or), thus the source of MC labialization is not quite clear (perhaps we should reconstruct *ʒar in OC).
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 5508
Karlgren code: 0237 a-d
Shijing occurrences: 32.3, 39.1, 39.4_
