Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 羨

Modern (Beijing) reading: xiàn

Preclassic Old Chinese: lhans

Classic Old Chinese: lhanh

Western Han Chinese: lhanh

Eastern Han Chinese: zhanh

Early Postclassic Chinese: zhèn

Middle Postclassic Chinese: zhèn

Late Postclassic Chinese: zhèn

Middle Chinese: zjèn

English meaning : covet, desire; surplus, affluence

Russian meaning[s]: 1) жаждать; томиться (по чему-л.); страстно желать; завидовать; 2) любить; восхищаться, восхвалять; 3) избыток, остаток; превзойти

Comments: Also irregularly read in MC as ʒjèn (Pek. jiàn); during LZ borrowed for *lan (MC jen, Pek. yán) "oblong".

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 123

Four-angle index: 4852

Karlgren code: 0207 a

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