Character: 嵬
Modern (Beijing) reading: wéi
Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋūj
Classic Old Chinese: ŋwǝ̄j
Western Han Chinese: ŋwǝ̄j
Eastern Han Chinese: ŋwǝ̄j
Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋwǝ̄j
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋwǝ̄j
Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋwǝ̄j
Middle Chinese: ŋój
English meaning : be craggy; craggy height
Russian meaning[s]: обрывистый, отвесный; зубчатый (о горах)
Shuowen gloss: 山石崔嵬.高而不平也.從山鬼聲.
Comments:
During Early Zhou attested only within the binome 崔嵬 *ʒ(h)ūj-ŋūj.
Guangyun gives only the reading MC ŋój, but other MC dictionaries have 平聲
ŋoj as well (e.g. YH 魚回), which is confirmed both by Shijing rhymes and
the Pek. reading wéi. The word is expressive and obsolete in the modern
language, but evidently related to other similar words in ŋ- (as MC 峨 ŋâ
'high, rocky' < *ŋāj, cf. Fuzhou, Jianou ŋɔ2; MC 巍 ŋwɨ̀j 'high,
outstanding' < *ŋuj-s, cf. Xiamen i6, Chaozhou ŋui4, i6, Fuzhou ŋui6),
which allows us to reconstruct *ŋ- (not *ŋh-) in OC.
Radical: 46
Four-angle index: 7475
Karlgren code: 0569 j
Vietnamese reading: ngoi
