Character: 替
Modern (Beijing) reading: tì
Preclassic Old Chinese: thīts (~ ƛ(h)-, ~ sl(h)-, ~ sn(h)-, ~ srh-, ~ -ǝ̄ts, ~ -ē(k)s)
Classic Old Chinese: thīć
Western Han Chinese: thjǝ̄ś
Eastern Han Chinese: thiǝ̄ś
Early Postclassic Chinese: thiēś
Middle Postclassic Chinese: thiḕj
Late Postclassic Chinese: thiḕj
Middle Chinese: thìej
English meaning : to interrupt, remove, replace; to give up, miss, discard
Russian meaning[s]: 1) заменять; подменять; сменять; 2) вместо, за, для; 3) приходить в упадок; 4) пренебрегать
Comments: There are no hsieh-sheng connections or rhymes for the word, thus the OC reconstruction is very uncertain. Viet. thay is colloquial; standard Sino-Viet. is thế.
Radical: 72
Four-angle index: 1547
Vietnamese reading: thay
