Character: 省
Modern (Beijing) reading: shěng
Preclassic Old Chinese: sreŋʔ
Classic Old Chinese: sréŋ
Western Han Chinese: ṣéŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: ṣéŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: ṣéŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṣéŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: ṣéŋ
Middle Chinese: ṣä́iŋ
English meaning : to inspect, examine, scrutinize
Russian meaning[s]: 1) провинция, губерния; 2) экономить, беречь; сокращать; 3) яп. министерство; [xǐng] 1) вникать; исследовать; 2) очнуться, осознать; 3) навестить родителей на родине
Comments: Also read *seŋʔ, MC sjéŋ, Mand. xǐng id. A later meaning is ('what is inspected' >) 'province'. Standard Sino-Viet. is ti`nh. Of Austric origin? - cf. Bahnar *tǝ-cǝŋ, Khmer ʒǝńʒɨŋ 'think, meditate'.
Radical: 109
Four-angle index: 1697
Karlgren code: 0812 l-p
Vietnamese reading: tính
