Character: 暖
Modern (Beijing) reading: nuǎn
Preclassic Old Chinese: nōrʔ
Classic Old Chinese: nṓn
Western Han Chinese: nṓn
Eastern Han Chinese: nṓn
Early Postclassic Chinese: nṓn
Middle Postclassic Chinese: nṓn
Late Postclassic Chinese: nṓn
Middle Chinese: nwấn
English meaning : warm [LZ]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) теплый; разогревать; греться; 2) перен. поставить угощение; лично поздравить (напр. с новосельем, браком)
Comments: The character was originally read *swan (MC xwǝn, FQ Jiyün 許元, Mod. xuān), the latter reading preserved only in some compounds (meaning 'mild,soft'). It must have had that reading in a poem of Qu Yuan (Tian Wen), where it rhymes with 寒. The word *nōrʔ was originally written with the phonetic 耎 and with the radicals "fire" or "water"; a confusion became possible after the merger of *-r and *-n. For *n- cf. Xiamen luan3, Chaozhou nueŋ3, Fuzhou nuaŋ3, Jianou nɔŋ3.
Radical: 72
Four-angle index: 5975
Karlgren code: 0238 i
Go-on: nan
Kan-on: dan
