Change viewing parameters
Switch to Russian version
Select another database

Chinese characters :

Search within this database
\data\china\bigchina
Character:
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
bigchina-reading,bigchina-ochn,bigchina-cchn,bigchina-wchn,bigchina-echn,bigchina-epchn,bigchina-mpchn,bigchina-lpchn,bigchina-mchn,bigchina-meaning,bigchina-oshanin,bigchina-comment,bigchina-stibet,bigchina-doc,bigchina-radical,bigchina-oshval,bigchina-karlgren,bigchina-viet,

List with all references
Search within this database
Select another database

Total pages generatedPages generated by this script
73968816620253
Help
StarLing database serverPowered byCGI scripts
Copyright 1998-2003 by S. StarostinCopyright 1998-2003 by G. Bronnikov
Copyright 2005-2014 by Phil Krylov