Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 溺

Modern (Beijing) reading: nì

Preclassic Old Chinese: nhēkʷ

Classic Old Chinese: nhēuk

Western Han Chinese: nhjāuk

Eastern Han Chinese: nhiāuk

Early Postclassic Chinese: nhiēuk

Middle Postclassic Chinese: nhiēk

Late Postclassic Chinese: nhiēk

Middle Chinese: niek

English meaning : to sink, go under

Russian meaning[s]: 1) тонуть, погружаться; топить; 2) пристраститься; предаваться (чему-л.), погрязнуть; [niào] мочиться; моча, см. 尿

Comments: For *nh- cf. Jianou ni⁷.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 4639

Karlgren code: 1123 d

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