Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 食

Modern (Beijing) reading: shí

Preclassic Old Chinese: lǝk

Classic Old Chinese: lǝk

Western Han Chinese: lǝk

Eastern Han Chinese: źǝk

Early Postclassic Chinese: źɨk

Middle Postclassic Chinese: źɨk

Late Postclassic Chinese: źɨk

Middle Chinese: źik

English meaning : to eat

Russian meaning[s]: 1) пища, еда; питание; есть, питаться; кормиться; 2) ист. кормление, содержание (чиновника); 3) затмение (солнца, луны); 4) растравлять; возбуждать; 5) нарушать; 6) Ши (фамилия); [sì] кормить

Comments: Also read *lhǝk-s, MC zjɨ̀ (FQ JY 祥吏) 'to feed, give to eat' (later usually written as 飼 in that meaning).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 184

Four-angle index: 5787

Karlgren code: 0921 a-c

Jianchuan Bai: (-cɛ6), jɨ6

Dali Bai: (-ci6), jɨ6

Bijiang Bai: ji4

Shijing occurrences: 18.1, 18.2_, 18.3, 58.2, 58.4

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