Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 耳

Modern (Beijing) reading: ěr

Preclassic Old Chinese: nhǝʔ

Classic Old Chinese: nǝ́

Western Han Chinese: nǝ́

Eastern Han Chinese: ń́ǝ́

Early Postclassic Chinese: ń́ɨ́

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ńɨ́

Late Postclassic Chinese: ńɨ́

Middle Chinese: ńɨ́

English meaning : ear

Russian meaning[s]: 1) ухо; слышать; на ухо; 2) ушко (ручка) предмета; 3) расположенный по бокам, боковой; [-er] и только!, и все!, только и всего!, не более как; конечная частица в вэньяне

Shuowen gloss: 主聽者也.象形.凡耳之屬皆從耳. [591]

Comments: For initial *nh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen hi⁶, Chaozhou hĩ⁴, Fuzhou ŋe⁶, Jianou nɛiŋ⁶, nɛiŋ⁸. The character is used also for OC *n(h)ǝ(ʔ)-s, MC ńɨ̀ 'sinew', written also as 餌.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 128

Four-angle index: 2671

Vietnamese reading: nhĩ

Jianchuan Bai: jɨ̃1-

Dali Bai: ńü1-

Bijiang Bai: ẽ1-

Shijing occurrences: 3.1, 37.4_, 55.2

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