Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 頑

Modern (Beijing) reading: wán

Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋrōn

Classic Old Chinese: ŋrwān

Western Han Chinese: ŋrwān

Eastern Han Chinese: ŋrwān

Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋwạ̄n

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋwạ̄n

Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋwạ̄n

Middle Chinese: ŋwạn

English meaning : be stupid, foolish

Russian meaning[s]: 1) упорствовать; упрямый, упорный; непослушный; 2) тупой; глупый; 3) жадный; 4) играть, вм. 玩

Comments: For *ŋ- cf. Xiamen guan², Chaozhou ŋueŋ², Fuzhou ŋuaŋ².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 181

Four-angle index: 8123

Karlgren code: 0257 g

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