Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 運

Modern (Beijing) reading: yùn

Preclassic Old Chinese: wǝrs

Classic Old Chinese: wǝnh

Western Han Chinese: wǝnh

Eastern Han Chinese: wǝnh

Early Postclassic Chinese: wɨ̀n

Middle Postclassic Chinese: wɨ̀n

Late Postclassic Chinese: wɨ̀n

Middle Chinese: ɦǜn

English meaning : to move, transfer, activate; (movement >) fate

Russian meaning[s]: 1) двигаться; вращаться; 2) передвигать; перевозить; транспортировать; 3) применять, пускать в ход; 4) судьба; 5) протяжение с севера на юг; 6) Юнь (фамилия)

Comments: Attested already in Yijing, but absent from Schüssler's dictionary. Another loan from the same source is Viet. vần 'move a heavy thing to another place'. Standard Sino-Viet. is vận. For *w cf. Xiamen un⁶, Chaozhou uŋ⁶, Fuzhou oŋ⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 162

Four-angle index: 6518

Karlgren code: 0458 d

Vietnamese reading: vặn

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