Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 縱

Modern (Beijing) reading: zòng

Preclassic Old Chinese: coŋs

Classic Old Chinese: coŋh

Western Han Chinese: coŋh

Eastern Han Chinese: cjoŋh

Early Postclassic Chinese: cjòŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: cjòŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: cjòŋ

Middle Chinese: cjö̀uŋ

English meaning : to release, let off; indulgent, licentious; granted that, even though

Russian meaning[s]: 1) освобождать, отпускать (на волю); выпускать (стрелу); 2) распустить(ся), избаловать(ся); своевольничать; распоясаться; произвол; распущенный; 3) если бы..., пусть даже..., допустим, что...; [zōng] 1) перпендикулярный; вертикальный; 2) долгота; меридиан; [zǒng] 1) быстро, поспешно; деловито; 2) толпиться; во множестве; 3) подстрекать, возбуждать

Comments: During Late Zhou used also for *coŋ 'perpendicular, longitudinal' (earlier written as 從), as well as for *coŋʔ, MC cjö́uŋ, Mand. zǒng 'hasty, quick; multitude, crowd' (usually reduplicated: *coŋʔ-coŋʔ). In Viet. the usage of tung for 'cast, throw' is colloquial: standard Sino-Viet. is túng.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 120

Four-angle index: 5854

Karlgren code: 1191 h

Vietnamese reading: tung