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Character: 鐮
Modern (Beijing) reading: lián
Preclassic Old Chinese: rem
Classic Old Chinese: rem
Western Han Chinese: rjam
Eastern Han Chinese: ram
Early Postclassic Chinese: lem
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lem
Late Postclassic Chinese: lem
Middle Chinese: lem
English meaning : sickle [Han]
Russian meaning[s]: серп
Comments: Viet. lẽm 'very sharp' is probably borrowed from the same source as liềm 'sickle'; regular Sino-Viet. is liêm. For *r- cf. Xiamen liam2 , Chaozhou liǝm2 , Fuzhou lieŋ2 . Cf. also 磏 *rem 'sharp'.
Radical: 167
Four-angle index: 5435
Vietnamese reading: lẽm
Jianchuan Bai: jĩ7
Dali Bai: je7
Bijiang Bai: ńa7
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