Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 凶

Modern (Beijing) reading: xiōng

Preclassic Old Chinese: sŋoŋ

Classic Old Chinese: ŋ̥oŋ

Western Han Chinese: ŋ̥oŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: ŋ̥oŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: hoŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: hoŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: hoŋ

Middle Chinese: xöuŋ

English meaning : be inauspicious, baleful, bad

Russian meaning[s]: 1) неурожай; неурожайный; голод; бедствие; 2) зло; злой; зловещий, неблагоприятный; несчастье; злодейский; убийство; 3) жестокий; жестоко; 4) здоровенный, дюжий; здорово, сильно; чрезмерно

Comments: Viet. giông is colloquial (with a somewhat strange initial reflex). Another colloquial loan is huông 'run of ill-luck'. Regular Sino-Viet. is hung.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 17

Four-angle index: 967

Karlgren code: 1183 a

Vietnamese reading: giông

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