Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 層

Modern (Beijing) reading: céng

Preclassic Old Chinese: ʒǝ̄ŋ

Classic Old Chinese: ʒǝ̄ŋ

Western Han Chinese: ʒǝ̄ŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: ʒǝ̄ŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒǝ̄ŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒǝ̄ŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒǝ̄ŋ

Middle Chinese: ʒʌŋ

English meaning : layer [LZ]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) слой; ярус; этаж; ступень; многослойный; многоэтажный; слой за слоем; порядок; 2) перен. дело; момент; вопрос; параграф, пункт

Comments: Also borrowed in Viet. as tầng, tụ̀ng. For *ʒ cf. Xiamen ciŋ², Fuzhou ceŋ², Chaozhou caŋ², Jianou caiŋ⁹.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 44

Four-angle index: 1534

Karlgren code: 0884 i

Vietnamese reading: tằng

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