Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 儉

Modern (Beijing) reading: jiǎn

Preclassic Old Chinese: ghramʔ

Classic Old Chinese: ghrám

Western Han Chinese: ghrám

Eastern Han Chinese: ghrám

Early Postclassic Chinese: ghém

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ghém

Late Postclassic Chinese: ghém

Middle Chinese: gém

English meaning : to economize [LZ]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) экономить; экономный, бережливый; простой; 2) недород, неурожай; недостаточный, скудный; 3) 28-е число (в телеграммах); 4) Цзянь (фамилия)

Comments: Mod. jiǎn is irregular (instead of *jiàn); for *gh cf. Xiamen khiam⁶, Chaozhou khiǝm⁴.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 9

Four-angle index: 7824

Karlgren code: 0613 e

Vietnamese reading: kiệm

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