Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 貶

Modern (Beijing) reading: biǎn

Preclassic Old Chinese: premʔ

Classic Old Chinese: prém

Western Han Chinese: prjám

Eastern Han Chinese: prám

Early Postclassic Chinese: pém

Middle Postclassic Chinese: pém

Late Postclassic Chinese: pém

Middle Chinese: pém

English meaning : to diminish, weaken

Russian meaning[s]: 1) унижать; осуждать, порицать; снижать; 2) понижать в должности; разжаловать; уволить; 3) колоть; игла

Comments: In MC also read pɨ́m. Sino-Viet. biếm reflects rather MC *pèm, but there seems also to exist a regular reflex biê`m < *pém.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 154

Four-angle index: 6444

Karlgren code: 0641 d

Vietnamese reading: biếm

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