Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 軟

Modern (Beijing) reading: ruǎn

Preclassic Old Chinese: norʔ

Classic Old Chinese: nón

Western Han Chinese: nón

Eastern Han Chinese: ńón

Early Postclassic Chinese: ńón

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ńón

Late Postclassic Chinese: ńón

Middle Chinese: ńwén

English meaning : soft, weak [LZ]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) мягкий; эластичный; 2) ласковый, добрый; уступчивый; 3) мягкотелый, слабый; нежный; обмякнуть, стать слабым

Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is nhuyễn. For *n- cf. Xiamen nŋ³, Chaozhou nɨŋ³, Fuzhou nuoŋ³, Jianou nüiŋ³.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 159

Four-angle index: 4811

Karlgren code: 0238 b

Vietnamese reading: nhũn

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