Character: 疊
Modern (Beijing) reading: dié
Preclassic Old Chinese: dhīp (~ lh-)
Classic Old Chinese: dhīp
Western Han Chinese: dhjǝ̄p
Eastern Han Chinese: dhiǝ̄p
Early Postclassic Chinese: dhiēp
Middle Postclassic Chinese: dhiēp
Late Postclassic Chinese: dhiēp
Middle Chinese: diep
English meaning : to fear
Russian meaning[s]: 1) многослойный; сложный; нагромождать; класть слоями; складывать; 2) сгибать; 3) повторять, воспроизводить; 4) неоднократно, часто
Comments: Used later (since Han) for a homonymous *dhīp (~lh-) 'to fold, fold'. In Viet. - one of the cases when a nasal initial reflects a Chin. dental stop; standard Sino-Viet. is d_iệp. For aspiration cf. Xiamen thiap8, Chaozhou thiap8, Fuzhou thak8, Jianou tha6.
Radical: 102
Four-angle index: 618
Vietnamese reading: nếp
