Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 貧

Modern (Beijing) reading: pín

Preclassic Old Chinese: bhrǝn

Classic Old Chinese: bhrǝn

Western Han Chinese: bhrǝn

Eastern Han Chinese: bhrǝn

Early Postclassic Chinese: bhin

Middle Postclassic Chinese: bhin

Late Postclassic Chinese: bhin

Middle Chinese: bin

English meaning : be poor

Russian meaning[s]: 1) бедный; бедность, нужда; 2) недостаточность; недостаточный; 3) подлый; вульгарный; 4) я (монах о себе)

Comments: For OC *bh- cf. Chaozhou phiŋ².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 154

Four-angle index: 8031

Karlgren code: 0471 v

Vietnamese reading: bần

Shijing occurrences: 40.1_, 58.4_

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