Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 忘

Modern (Beijing) reading: wàng

Preclassic Old Chinese: maŋ

Classic Old Chinese: maŋ

Western Han Chinese: maŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: mwaŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: mwaŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mwaŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: mwaŋ

Middle Chinese: mwàŋ

English meaning : to forget

Russian meaning[s]: 1) забывать; забывчивый; 2) упустить, пренебречь; 3) суетный; несознательный; темный, вм. 妄

Comments: Obviously same word as 亡 *maŋ 'to lose' q.v. It always rhymes in 平聲 in OC, and the variant *maŋ-s (whence MC màŋ) must be dialectal. Cf. also Min readings: Xiamen bɔŋ², Chaozhou buaŋ² reflecting *maŋ.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 61

Four-angle index: 8354

Karlgren code: 0742 i-j

Shijing occurrences: 29.3_

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