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Modern (Beijing) reading: miǎn
Preclassic Old Chinese: marʔ
Classic Old Chinese: mán
Western Han Chinese: mán
Eastern Han Chinese: mwán
Early Postclassic Chinese: mén
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mén
Late Postclassic Chinese: mén
Middle Chinese: mén
English meaning : to escape, avoid, exempt [L.Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) избежать; уйти от..., ускользнуть от...; 2) освободить(ся) от...; избавить(ся) от....; сложить с себя; 3) освободить от сборов; бесплатный; 4) снять (напр. шапку); убрать; 5) уйти в отставку; уволить(ся); 6) не следует, нельзя; [wèn] траур, см.
Comments: MC mén is not quite regular (*mǝ́n would be normally expected). For *m- cf. Xiamen bian3, Chaozhou, Fuzhou mieŋ3, Jianou miŋ3. Also read *m(h)ǝr-s, MC mǜn, Mand. wèn 'to mourn, mourning'.
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 10
Four-angle index: 7570
Karlgren code: 0222 a
Vietnamese reading: miễn
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