Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 墊

Modern (Beijing) reading: diàn

Preclassic Old Chinese: tīms

Classic Old Chinese: tīmh

Western Han Chinese: tjǝ̄mh

Eastern Han Chinese: tiǝ̄mh

Early Postclassic Chinese: tiḕm

Middle Postclassic Chinese: tiḕm

Late Postclassic Chinese: tiḕm

Middle Chinese: tìem

English meaning : to submerge

Russian meaning[s]: 1) подпорка; подкладка, подушка, подстилка; рессора; 2) восполнить; доплатить; авансировать; уплатить (за кого-л.); 3) опуститься, пасть; 4) быть затопленным

Comments: Later attested are the meanings 'throw down, overwhelm'; 'bottom' > 'support; pillow, mattress' (which makes probable the borrowed character of Viet. nệm - although the nasal initial is still strange). Standard Sino-Viet. is d_iếm.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 32

Four-angle index: 245

Karlgren code: 0685 o

Vietnamese reading: nệm

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