Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 試

Modern (Beijing) reading: shì

Preclassic Old Chinese: ƛhǝks

Classic Old Chinese: ƛhǝh

Western Han Chinese: ƛhǝh

Eastern Han Chinese: shǝh

Early Postclassic Chinese: shɨ̀

Middle Postclassic Chinese: shɨ̀

Late Postclassic Chinese: shɨ̀

Middle Chinese: śɨ̀

English meaning : to test, try

Russian meaning[s]: 1) пробовать, испытывать, экспериментировать; проба, испытание, опыт; 2) экзаменовать; экзамен; допытываться; исследовать; 3) сравнивать, сопоставлять; 4) пробовать (на вкус), отведывать

Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is thí. Also borrowed in Viet. as thu`'. For *ƛh- (which would normally yield MC ṭhɨ̀, replaced by a dialectal reflex) cf. Xiamen chi⁵, Chaozhou chi⁵, Fuzhou che⁵, Jianou chi⁵.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 149

Four-angle index: 6724

Karlgren code: 0918 n

Vietnamese reading: thi

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