Character: 翅
Modern (Beijing) reading: chì
Preclassic Old Chinese: kes
Classic Old Chinese: keh
Western Han Chinese: keh
Eastern Han Chinese: kjeh
Early Postclassic Chinese: kjè
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kjè
Late Postclassic Chinese: kjè
Middle Chinese: śè
English meaning : wing [LZ]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) перья; крылья; плавники; 2) только, всего лишь, вм. 啻
Comments: Phonetically difficult: xiesheng points definitely to a velar initial, but *x- can hardly be reconstructed - first, because of an affricate in most modern dialects (although one would rather expect a non-aspirated c- (ć-)), second, because the character is used in Mengzi as a loan for *tek-s (probably pronounced as *t́eh at that time, in MC - also śè) 'only'. If the reconstruction *ke-s is correct, this would be an only known case of the fricativization *k- > *ć- > MC ś-.
Radical: 124
Four-angle index: 6076
Karlgren code: 0864 e
