Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 陳

Modern (Beijing) reading: chén

Preclassic Old Chinese: dhrǝn

Classic Old Chinese: dhrin

Western Han Chinese: ḍhjǝn

Eastern Han Chinese: ḍhǝn

Early Postclassic Chinese: ḍhin

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ḍhin

Late Postclassic Chinese: ḍhin

Middle Chinese: ḍin

English meaning : to set forth, set out, spread out, array, arrange, marshall, display

Russian meaning[s]: 1) расставлять (располагать) в порядке; ряд, строй, порядок; 2) излагать, сообщать; 3) старый, устарелый; залежавшийся; выдержанный (напр. о вине); 4) Чэнь (династия 557 - 588 гг.); 5) Чэнь (название древнего княжества); 6) Чэнь (фамилия); [zhén] вм. 陣

Comments: For *dh- cf. Chaozhou thiŋ². Also read (since L.Zhou) *dhrǝn-s, MC ḍìn (FQ 直刃), Mand. zhèn, Viet. trận 'battle array; combat'. This derivate later started being written as 陣.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 170

Four-angle index: 5404

Karlgren code: 0373 a

Vietnamese reading: trần

Shijing occurrences: 31.1

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