Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 若

Modern (Beijing) reading: ruò

Preclassic Old Chinese: nak

Classic Old Chinese: nak

Western Han Chinese: nak

Eastern Han Chinese: ńak

Early Postclassic Chinese: ńak

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ńak

Late Postclassic Chinese: ńak

Middle Chinese: ńak

English meaning : such, thus, like this, like that

Russian meaning[s]: 1) походить; вроде; наподобие; 2) если; если бы; 3) что же касается...; что до...; 4) древн. ты; твой

Comments: A distributive (-k) derivation from 如 *na q.v. For *n cf. Xiamen ʒiɔk⁸, Chaozhou ziak⁸, Fuzhou iok⁸.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 140

Four-angle index: 1111

Karlgren code: 0777 a-e

Shijing occurrences: 58.2_

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