Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 光

Modern (Beijing) reading: guāng

Preclassic Old Chinese: kʷāŋ

Classic Old Chinese: kwāŋ

Western Han Chinese: kwāŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: kwāŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: kwāŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwāŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: kwāŋ

Middle Chinese: kwâŋ

English meaning : be bright, glorious; light, brightness, glory

Russian meaning[s]: 1) свет; ясный, светлый; излучение, сияние; блестящий, гладкий; 2) слава, блеск; блестящий, славный; 3) добро, милость, снисхождение; вежл. Ваша милость; Ваш; 4) дочиста, без остатка; 5) нагой; обнажить, выставить напоказ; 6) только; 7) Гуан (фамилия)

Comments: Also read *kʷāŋ-s, MC kwầŋ, Mand. guàng 'be extensive' (probably < *kʷāŋʔ-s, cf. 廣). Schüssler prefers to read it as *kʷāŋ with level tone, but Karlgren seems to be right in distinguishing it phonetically from *kʷāŋ 'be bright' (a level-tone rhyme for *kʷāŋs > EZ *kʷāŋh is quite normal). Viet. quáng 'to dazzle, blind' is a colloquial loan (reflecting an unattested *kʷāŋ-s > MC *kwầŋ 'be bright, dazzle' ?); standard Sino-Viet. is quang.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 10

Four-angle index: 7333

Karlgren code: 0706 a-e

Vietnamese reading: quáng

Jianchuan Bai: kuã1-

Dali Bai: kua6-

Bijiang Bai: qã1-, kuã1-

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