Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 閉

Modern (Beijing) reading: bì

Preclassic Old Chinese: pīts

Classic Old Chinese: pīć

Western Han Chinese: pjǝ̄ś

Eastern Han Chinese: piǝ̄ś

Early Postclassic Chinese: piēś

Middle Postclassic Chinese: piḕj

Late Postclassic Chinese: piḕj

Middle Chinese: pièj

English meaning : to shut, obstruct

Russian meaning[s]: 1) закрыть; затворить, замкнуть; 2) блокировать; преградить; завалить; прекратить

Comments: Also read MC piet, OC *pīt id. Cf. also 閟 *prits.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 169

Four-angle index: 3413

Karlgren code: 0412 a-b

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