Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 浸

Modern (Beijing) reading: jīn

Preclassic Old Chinese: cims

Classic Old Chinese: cimh

Western Han Chinese: cjǝmh

Eastern Han Chinese: cjǝmh

Early Postclassic Chinese: cjìm

Middle Postclassic Chinese: cjìm

Late Postclassic Chinese: cjìm

Middle Chinese: cjìm

English meaning : to overflow, soak, wet

Russian meaning[s]: 1) погрузить в воду, обмакнуть, промочить; 2) постепенно проникать; постепенно, все более

Comments: In Mand. also read jīn (pointing to a variant MC *cjim, OC *cim). The normal Sino-Viet. reading is tâ`m; cf. also tắm 'to bathe, have a bath' (probably a colloquial loan from the same source).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 6044

Karlgren code: 0661 m

Vietnamese reading: chấm

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