Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 耐

Modern (Beijing) reading: nài

Preclassic Old Chinese: nǝ̄s

Classic Old Chinese: nǝ̄h

Western Han Chinese: nǝ̄h

Eastern Han Chinese: nǝ̄h

Early Postclassic Chinese: nǝ̄̀

Middle Postclassic Chinese: nǝ̄̀

Late Postclassic Chinese: nǝ̄̀j

Middle Chinese: nʌ̀j

English meaning : patient, to endure [L.Zhou]

Russian meaning[s]: переносить, терпеть, сносить; превозмочь; терпеливый; сдержанный; [néng] древн. вм. 能

Comments: For *n cf. Xiamen, Fuzhou nai⁶, Chaozhou nai⁴. Sometimes also used instead of 能 *nǝ̄ 'to be able' (q.v.).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 126

Four-angle index: 3143

Vietnamese reading: nại

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