Character: 內
Modern (Beijing) reading: nèi
Preclassic Old Chinese: nǝ̄ps
Classic Old Chinese: nǝ̄ć
Western Han Chinese: nǝ̄ś
Eastern Han Chinese: nǝ̄ś
Early Postclassic Chinese: nǝ̄ś
Middle Postclassic Chinese: nǝ̄̀j
Late Postclassic Chinese: nǝ̄̀j
Middle Chinese: nòj
English meaning : inside, interior; within
Russian meaning[s]: 1) внутренний; содержимое; содержаться; скрытый; внутри; в, в течение; 2) послелог обстоятельства места и времени, часто с 在 впереди; 3) жена; по женской линии; домашний, семейный; частный; 4) утроба, внутренности
Comments: Viet. nấp (cf. also núp 'to take cover, shelter') may be just a chance coincidence; otherwise, it must be a very archaic loan, or else a loan from some aberrant dialect. The regular Sino-Viet. form is nội. For *n cf. Xiamen lai6, Chaozhou lai4, Fuzhou nöü6, Jianou no6.
Radical: 11
Four-angle index: 3956
Karlgren code: 0695 e-g
Vietnamese reading: nấp
