Character: 場
Modern (Beijing) reading: cháng
Preclassic Old Chinese: Łaŋ
Classic Old Chinese: Łaŋ
Western Han Chinese: laŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: źaŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: źaŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: źaŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: źaŋ
Middle Chinese: ḍaŋ
English meaning : unploughed fields in mountains,i.e. a meadow
Russian meaning[s]: 1) площадь; арена, сцена; 2) место; помещение; 3) цех; 4) театральное представление, сеанс, спектакль; 5) счетный суффикс для явлений природы, процессов и т. д.
Comments: The word also means 'vegetable garden, threshing arena, fenced-in area' (probably etymologically the same word). In MC we have here a very rare case of preserving ḍ- < *Ł- (normally *jaŋ would be expected); for unaspirated *Ł- cf. Xiamen tiũ2, Chaozhou tĩẽ2, Fuzhou tioŋ2, Jianou tiɔŋ9.
Radical: 32
Four-angle index: 4381
Karlgren code: 0720 x
Vietnamese reading: tru'ò'ng
