Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 正

Modern (Beijing) reading: zhèng

Preclassic Old Chinese: teŋs

Classic Old Chinese: teŋh

Western Han Chinese: teŋh

Eastern Han Chinese: ćeŋh

Early Postclassic Chinese: ćèŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćèŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: ćèŋ

Middle Chinese: ćèŋ

English meaning : to be straight, correct; govern; determine

Comments: Also read *teŋ, MC ćeŋ, Mand. zhēng 'center of target; first (month)' ( = Viet. chiếng, although the Viet. tone corresponds rather to MC ćèŋ). Viet. chiếng is colloquial; regular Sino-Viet. is chính. A loan from another dialectal source is probably Viet. giêng 'the first month of the lunar year'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 0

Four-angle index: 0

Karlgren code: 0833 j-n

Vietnamese reading: chiếng

Jianchuan Bai: ?tuĩ4

Dali Bai: cer3, ?tui5

Bijiang Bai: ?te4, tui4

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