Character: 錫
Modern (Beijing) reading: xí
Preclassic Old Chinese: slhēk
Classic Old Chinese: sl̥ēk
Western Han Chinese: sl̥ēk
Eastern Han Chinese: l̥iēk
Early Postclassic Chinese: siēk
Middle Postclassic Chinese: siēk
Late Postclassic Chinese: siēk
Middle Chinese: siek
English meaning : tin; to give, to present with
Russian meaning[s]: 1) олово; хим. олово (Sn); 2) даровать, жаловать; подарок; 3) 12-е число (в телеграммах); 4) Си (фамилия)
Comments: MC siek reflects a dialectal form with *slh- > s- (the normal reflex would be *thiek - which is actually reflected in the Vietnamese colloquial loan thiếc, while standard Sino-Viet. is tích). The character has actually a more rare reading thiek, Mand. tì 'to cut (hair), to shear' (L.Zhou), which demonstrates a standard phonetic development. See also 賜.
Radical: 167
Four-angle index: 4402
Karlgren code: 0850 n-o
Vietnamese reading: thiếc
Jianchuan Bai: śi4
Dali Bai: śi4
Bijiang Bai: la6 !
Shijing occurrences: 38.3, 55.3_
