Character: 狹
Modern (Beijing) reading: xiá
Preclassic Old Chinese: ghrēp
Classic Old Chinese: ghrēp
Western Han Chinese: ɣrjāp
Eastern Han Chinese: ɣriāp
Early Postclassic Chinese: ɣiẹ̄p
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ɣiẹ̄p
Late Postclassic Chinese: ɣiẹ̄p
Middle Chinese: ɣạ̈p
English meaning : narrow
Russian meaning[s]: 1) узкий, тесный, сжатый; сужать, стеснять; 2) ограниченный (о человеке)
Comments: Not in Schüssler's dictionary (although attested already in Shujing). Regular Sino-Viet. is hiệp; cf. perhaps also xép 'small, narrow'. For *gh cf. Xiamen ueʔ8.
Radical: 94
Four-angle index: 5000
Karlgren code: 0630 e
Vietnamese reading: hẹp
