Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 碾

Modern (Beijing) reading: niǎn

Preclassic Old Chinese: nranʔ

Classic Old Chinese: nrán

Western Han Chinese: ṇán

Eastern Han Chinese: ṇán

Early Postclassic Chinese: ṇén

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṇén

Late Postclassic Chinese: ṇén

Middle Chinese: ṇén

English meaning : to crush, grind [Wei]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) каменный каток для зерна; обрушивать (зерно); давить; раздавить; 2) ступка для лекарств

Comments: Written with the "foot" radical during LZ. Also read OC *nranʔ-s, MC ṇèn, Mand. niàn, Viet. nắn. Standard Sino-Viet. is nhiễn; cf. also Viet. nén 'to compress, squeeze'; nện 'to ram down; to beat, crush'; nhiễn 'well-kneaded'. For *n- cf. Xiamen lian³, Fuzhou nieŋ³ (Chaozhou tieŋ³ is quite irregular).

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 112

Four-angle index: 5634

Karlgren code: 0201 c

Vietnamese reading: nặn

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