Character: 閱
Modern (Beijing) reading: yuè
Preclassic Old Chinese: Łot
Classic Old Chinese: Łwat
Western Han Chinese: lwat
Eastern Han Chinese: źwat
Early Postclassic Chinese: źwet
Middle Postclassic Chinese: jwet
Late Postclassic Chinese: jwet
Middle Chinese: jwet
English meaning : to examine; to count
Russian meaning[s]: 1) просматривать; пробегать глазами; читать; 2) осматривать, проверять, инспектировать; осмотр, смотр; 3) проверить на опыте; 4) знатная фамилия, знатный род
Comments: Used also for a homonymous *Łot 'opening, hole', as well as instead of the homonymous 悅 *Łot 'to delight in, be pleased'. [Fuzhou üok7 seems to indicate *lhot - contradicting the xiesheng evidence].
Radical: 169
Four-angle index: 3453
Karlgren code: 0324 p
Vietnamese reading: duyệt
Shijing occurrences: 35.3
