Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 藝

Modern (Beijing) reading: yì

Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋets

Classic Old Chinese: ŋeć

Western Han Chinese: ŋjaś

Eastern Han Chinese: ŋjaś

Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋjeś

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋjèj

Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋjèj

Middle Chinese: ŋjèj

English meaning : to plant, cultivate; skill

Russian meaning[s]: 1) искусство; техника, мастерство; ремесло, профессия, занятие; 2) литература; 3) сажать (растения); 4) талант

Comments: In MC we have a rare case of preserving ŋ before j (one would rather expect MC *ńèj). Viet. has also a colloquial reading nghề. For *ŋ- cf. Xiamen ge⁶, Chaozhou goi⁶, Fuzhou ŋie⁶.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 140

Four-angle index: 8677

Karlgren code: 0330 f

Vietnamese reading: nghệ

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