Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 艾

Modern (Beijing) reading: ài

Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋhāts

Classic Old Chinese: ŋhāć

Western Han Chinese: ŋhāś

Eastern Han Chinese: ŋhāś

Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋhāś

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋhā̀j

Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋhā̀j

Middle Chinese: ŋầj

English meaning : Artemisia, mugwort

Russian meaning[s]: 1) полынь (Artemisia vulgaris); 2) седой, с проседью; 3) красавица; 4) прекратить, окончить; [yì] 1) косить траву; 2) упорядочить; порядок

Comments: Another meaning: to be white-haired, aged. Standard Sino-Viet. is nga`i; Viet. nghệ is the word for 'saffron, crocus' and may be considered as a colloquial loan if the two plants indeed have something in common. For *ŋh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen hĩã⁶, Chaozhou hĩã⁶, Fuzhou ŋie⁵, Jianou ŋai⁶.

Used also as a loan for 刈 q.v.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 140

Four-angle index: 6369

Karlgren code: 0347 c

Vietnamese reading: nghệ

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