Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 易

Modern (Beijing) reading: yì

Preclassic Old Chinese: leks

Classic Old Chinese: leh

Western Han Chinese: leh

Eastern Han Chinese: źeh

Early Postclassic Chinese: źè

Middle Postclassic Chinese: jè

Late Postclassic Chinese: jè

Middle Chinese: jè

English meaning : be easy; at ease; neglect

Comments: Also read OC *lek, MC jek, Mand. yì 'to change'. Viet. dễ is colloquial, and another colloquial loanword from the same source (MC jè) must be Viet. dê` 'to despise' ( < 'consider easy, neglect'). An archaic (WH) loan from the same source may be Viet. lẹ 'swift, rapid, easy(-going)'. Regular Sino-Vietnamese readings are dị ( < MC jè), dịch ( < MC jek).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 0

Four-angle index: 0

Karlgren code: 0850 a-e

Vietnamese reading: dễ

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