Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 擔

Modern (Beijing) reading: dān

Preclassic Old Chinese: tām

Classic Old Chinese: tām

Western Han Chinese: tām

Eastern Han Chinese: tām

Early Postclassic Chinese: tām

Middle Postclassic Chinese: tām

Late Postclassic Chinese: tām

Middle Chinese: tâm

English meaning : to carry on the shoulders [L.Zhou]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) нести (на плечах); 2) нести ответственность; брать на себя; 3) признать (вину)

Comments: Also read *tām-s, MC tầm, Mand. dàn 'burden; responsibility'. The character is also used for OC (L.Chou) *dams, MC ʒ́èm, Mand. shàn 'to borrow, loan'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 64

Four-angle index: 1165

Karlgren code: 0619 k

Vietnamese reading: d_a`m

Jianchuan Bai: tã4

Dali Bai: ta5

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