Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 窮

Modern (Beijing) reading: qióng

Preclassic Old Chinese: guŋ

Classic Old Chinese: guŋ

Western Han Chinese: gǝuŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: gǝuŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: gɨuŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: guŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: guŋ

Middle Chinese: güŋ

English meaning : destitution, poverty

Russian meaning[s]: 1) бедность; нужда, нищета; бедный, обнищавший; обеднеть; несчастный, жалкий; 2) предел; довести до предела; кончать(ся); крайность; истощаться; иссякать; истощенный; 3) исследовать, выяснять; доискиваться

Comments: A later semantic development is 'extremeness, extremity'. For *g- cf. Xiamen kiŋ², Fuzhou küŋ², Jianou köŋ² (Chaozhou khioŋ² is secondary).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 116

Four-angle index: 4625

Karlgren code: 1006 g-h

Vietnamese reading: cùng

Shijing occurrences: 35.6_

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