Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 念

Modern (Beijing) reading: niàn

Preclassic Old Chinese: nīms

Classic Old Chinese: nīmh

Western Han Chinese: njǝ̄mh

Eastern Han Chinese: niǝ̄mh

Early Postclassic Chinese: niḕm

Middle Postclassic Chinese: niḕm

Late Postclassic Chinese: niḕm

Middle Chinese: nìem

English meaning : to think of, remember, remind; care about

Russian meaning[s]: 1) думать; вспоминать (о чем-л.); мечта, дума; 2) читать вслух (нараспев); заучивать наизусть; 3) двадцать

Comments: In Viet. cf. also niềm 'sentiment, feeling' (pointing to an unattested MC *niem < *nīm ?). For *n- cf. Min forms: Xiamen liam⁶, Chaozhou liǝm⁴, Fuzhou nieŋ⁶, Jianou niŋ⁶, naŋ⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 61

Four-angle index: 8424

Karlgren code: 0670 a-c

Vietnamese reading: niệm

Shijing occurrences: 35.6

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