Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 弱

Modern (Beijing) reading: ruò

Preclassic Old Chinese: nhekʷ

Classic Old Chinese: nheuk

Western Han Chinese: nhjauk

Eastern Han Chinese: ńhauk

Early Postclassic Chinese: ńhauk

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ńhak

Late Postclassic Chinese: ńhak

Middle Chinese: ńak

English meaning : be weak; consider weak

Russian meaning[s]: 1) слабый, бессильный, хилый; слабое место, недостаток; 2) молодой, малолетний; нежный, деликатный; мягкий; 3) терять; 4) меньше, без малого; с минусом

Comments: For *nh- cf. Fuzhou iok⁷.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 57

Four-angle index: 4636

Karlgren code: 1123 a

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