Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 糧

Modern (Beijing) reading: liáng

Preclassic Old Chinese: raŋ

Classic Old Chinese: raŋ

Western Han Chinese: raŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: reŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: leŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: leŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: leŋ

Middle Chinese: laŋ

English meaning : grain, yield of grain, provisions

Russian meaning[s]: 1) хлеб (в зерне); хлебный провиант; провиант; 2) продналог; земельный налог

Comments: For *r cf. Xiamen liɔŋ², Chaozhou nĩẽ², Fuzhou lioŋ², Jianou liɔŋ².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 119

Four-angle index: 443

Karlgren code: 0737 d-e

Vietnamese reading: lu'o'ng

Character: 織

Modern (Beijing) reading: zhī

Preclassic Old Chinese: tǝk

Classic Old Chinese: tǝk

Western Han Chinese: tǝk

Eastern Han Chinese: ćǝk

Early Postclassic Chinese: ćɨk

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćɨk

Late Postclassic Chinese: ćɨk

Middle Chinese: ćik

English meaning : to weave; be woven

Russian meaning[s]: ткать, плести; сплетение; ткань

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 120

Four-angle index: 6755

Karlgren code: 0920 f

Vietnamese reading: chú'c

Jianchuan Bai: ci4

Dali Bai: cɨ6

Bijiang Bai: ṭɨ2

Character: 繕

Modern (Beijing) reading: shàn

Preclassic Old Chinese: d(h)arʔs

Classic Old Chinese: d(h)anh

Western Han Chinese: d(h)anh

Eastern Han Chinese: ʒ́(h)anh

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)àn

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)ǝ̀n

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)ǝ̀n

Middle Chinese: ʒ́èn

English meaning : repair, put in order [LZ]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) написать; переписать набело; снять копию; 2) привести в порядок, починить; приготовить

Comments: Probably derived from 善 *d(h)arʔ "good".

Radical: 120

Four-angle index: 1208

Karlgren code: 0205 f

Character: 繞

Modern (Beijing) reading: rào

Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋewʔ

Classic Old Chinese: ŋéw

Western Han Chinese: ŋjáw

Eastern Han Chinese: ńáw

Early Postclassic Chinese: ńéw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ńéw

Late Postclassic Chinese: ńéw

Middle Chinese: ńéw

English meaning : to wind round [LZ]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) обвязывать; обматывать; мотать; 2) обходить, огибать; идти окольным путем; кружный, окольный; 3) обойти (человека), поймать; обмануть; 4) Жао (фамилия)

Comments: Also read *ŋewʔ-s, MC ńèw, Mod. rào id. For *ŋ cf. Xiamen ʒiau⁶, Chaozhou ziǝu³, Fuzhou nau³, nau⁶.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 120

Four-angle index: 7327

Karlgren code: 1164 k

Character: 繚

Modern (Beijing) reading: liáo

Russian meaning[s]: обвязывать

Radical: 120

Four-angle index: 8240

Karlgren code: 1151 g

Character: 繡

Modern (Beijing) reading: xiù

Preclassic Old Chinese: sikʷs

Classic Old Chinese: siwh

Western Han Chinese: sjǝwh

Eastern Han Chinese: sjǝwh

Early Postclassic Chinese: sjìw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjìw

Late Postclassic Chinese: sjìw

Middle Chinese: sjǝ̀w

English meaning : to embroider; embroidery

Russian meaning[s]: 1) вышивать; вышивка; вышитый; разукрашенный; 2) Сю (фамилия)

Comments: Viet. thêu is a colloquial loan (initial th- is somewhat strange - perhaps it indicates that OC had *sh- here, with an irregular development > MC s- instead of ch-); standard Sino-Viet. is tú.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 120

Four-angle index: 2055

Karlgren code: 1028 e

Vietnamese reading: thêu

Character: 繒

Modern (Beijing) reading: zēng

Russian meaning[s]: тяжелая шелковая ткань

Radical: 120

Four-angle index: 1533

Karlgren code: 0884 h

Character: 繙

Modern (Beijing) reading: fān

Preclassic Old Chinese: phar

Classic Old Chinese: phan

Western Han Chinese: phan

Eastern Han Chinese: phwan

Early Postclassic Chinese: phwan

Middle Postclassic Chinese: phwǝn

Late Postclassic Chinese: phwǝn

Middle Chinese: phwǝn

English meaning : confuse, disorderly [LZ]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) переводить; перевод (с языка на язык); 2) перевертывать [страницы], листать [книгу]; 3) колыхаться, развеваться по ветру

Comments: Also read *bhar, MC bwǝn, Pek. fán id.

Radical: 120

Four-angle index: 1779

Karlgren code: 0195 h

Character: 罈

Modern (Beijing) reading: tán

Preclassic Old Chinese: lhǝ̄m

Classic Old Chinese: lhǝ̄m

Western Han Chinese: lhǝ̄m

Eastern Han Chinese: lhǝ̄m

Early Postclassic Chinese: dhǝ̄m

Middle Postclassic Chinese: dhǝ̄m

Late Postclassic Chinese: dhǝ̄m

Middle Chinese: dʌm

English meaning : an earthenware jar [Tang]

Comments: For *lh- cf. Xiamen tham², Fuzhou thaŋ². Since the character is late attested (and has also a number of graphic variants) *dhǝ̄m can also be reconstructed.

Radical: 0

Four-angle index: 0

Character: 翹

Modern (Beijing) reading: qiáo

Preclassic Old Chinese: g(h)ew

Classic Old Chinese: g(h)ew

Western Han Chinese: g(h)jaw

Eastern Han Chinese: g(h)jaw

Early Postclassic Chinese: g(h)jew

Middle Postclassic Chinese: g(h)jew

Late Postclassic Chinese: g(h)jew

Middle Chinese: gjew

English meaning : be precariously high

Russian meaning[s]: 1) длинные (хвостовые) перья; 2) поднимать (задирать) хвост; закручивать (усы); хорохориться, задаваться; 3) женские головные украшения, плюмаж; [qiào] подняться, задраться

Shuowen gloss: 尾長毛也.從羽.堯聲. [139]

Comments: Used in Shi in a reduplication: 翹翹. The etymological relation to 高 *kāw, 喬 *g(r)aw 'high' (q.v.) is not clear.

Radical: 124

Four-angle index: 7332

Go-on: geu

Kan-on: keu

Japanese reading: kyō;gyō;ageru;tsumadateru

Shijing occurrences: 9.2, 9.3

Character: 翻

Modern (Beijing) reading: fān

Preclassic Old Chinese: phar

Classic Old Chinese: phan

Western Han Chinese: phan

Eastern Han Chinese: phwan

Early Postclassic Chinese: phwan

Middle Postclassic Chinese: phwǝn

Late Postclassic Chinese: phwǝn

Middle Chinese: phwǝn

English meaning : to fly

Russian meaning[s]: 1) порхать; кувыркаться, перевертываться; 2) перевертывать, опрокидывать; перелистывать; закатывать (глаза); 3) переводить; расшифровывать; 4) перелицовывать; обновлять(ся); 5) счетный суффикс для явлений природы

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 124

Four-angle index: 3314

Character: 職

Modern (Beijing) reading: zhí

Preclassic Old Chinese: tǝk

Classic Old Chinese: tǝk

Western Han Chinese: tǝk

Eastern Han Chinese: ćǝk

Early Postclassic Chinese: ćɨk

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćɨk

Late Postclassic Chinese: ćɨk

Middle Chinese: ćik

English meaning : only, simply; office, duty

Russian meaning[s]: 1) должность, служба, должностные обязанности; 2) долг, обязанности; 3) ведать, управлять, заведывать; 4) профессия; сокр. профсоюз; 5) вследствие, из-за, вм. 因; 6) только, исключительно; 7) офиц. я (чиновник о себе); 8) 13-е число (в телеграммах); 9) Чжи (фамилия)

Comments: Schüssler's dictionary lists only the adverbial usage (in Shijing), but the homonymous *tǝk 'office, duty' is also archaic (occurs as early as in Shujing).

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 128

Four-angle index: 6751

Karlgren code: 0920 g-h

Vietnamese reading: chú'c

Character: 聶

Modern (Beijing) reading: niè

Preclassic Old Chinese: nhrap

Classic Old Chinese: nhrap

Western Han Chinese: ṇhap

Eastern Han Chinese: ṇhap

Early Postclassic Chinese: ṇhap

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṇhap

Late Postclassic Chinese: ṇhap

Middle Chinese: ṇep

English meaning : promise [LZ]

Russian meaning[s]: шептать(ся), секретничать

Comments: For *nh cf. Xiamen liap⁷, Chaozhou niʔ⁷, niap⁷, Fuzhou niek⁷. Also read *tap, MC ćep 'slice of meat'.

Radical: 128

Four-angle index: 2675

Karlgren code: 0638 a

Character: 臍

Modern (Beijing) reading: qí

Preclassic Old Chinese: ʒ́ǝ̄j

Classic Old Chinese: ʒǝ̄j

Western Han Chinese: ʒǝ̄j

Eastern Han Chinese: ʒǝ̄j

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒǝ̄j

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒǝ̄j

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒǝ̄j

Middle Chinese: ʒiej

English meaning : navel

Russian meaning[s]: 1) пупок; 2) брюшко

Comments: For *ʒ́- cf. Xiamen cai², Chaozhou ci², cai², Fuzhou sai².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 130

Four-angle index: 2716

Karlgren code: 0593 f

Character: 臏

Modern (Beijing) reading: bìn

Preclassic Old Chinese: b(h)inʔ

Classic Old Chinese: b(h)ín

Western Han Chinese: b(h)jǝ́n

Eastern Han Chinese: b(h)jǝ́n

Early Postclassic Chinese: b(h)jín

Middle Postclassic Chinese: b(h)jín

Late Postclassic Chinese: b(h)jín

Middle Chinese: bjín

English meaning : knee bone; punishment consisting in cutting the leg off at the knee [L.Zhou]

Russian meaning[s]: см. 髕

Comments: Since Han written also as 髕.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 130

Four-angle index: 8013

Karlgren code: 0389 r

Go-on: bin

Kan-on: hin

Japanese reading: hin;bin;ashikiri

Character: 舊

Modern (Beijing) reading: jìu

Preclassic Old Chinese: gʷǝs

Classic Old Chinese: gwǝh

Western Han Chinese: gǝwh

Eastern Han Chinese: gǝwh

Early Postclassic Chinese: gìw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: gǝ̀w

Late Postclassic Chinese: gǝ̀w

Middle Chinese: gǝ̀w

English meaning : be old, ancient (not of people)

Comments: Regular Sino-Viet. is cụ'u. Cf. also Viet. khú, khụ 'very old'. The original meaning of the graph was probably 'owl', but this usage is actually attested only since Han. For *g cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou ku⁶, Fuzhou ko⁶, Jianou kiu⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 0

Four-angle index: 0

Karlgren code: 1067 c-e

Vietnamese reading: cũ

Jianchuan Bai: kɨ3

Dali Bai: kɨ3

Bijiang Bai: gɨ̃2

Character: 藏

Modern (Beijing) reading: cáng zàng

Preclassic Old Chinese: ʒ́hāŋ ʒ́hāŋs

Classic Old Chinese: ʒhāŋ

Western Han Chinese: ʒhāŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: ʒhāŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒhāŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒhāŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒhāŋ

Middle Chinese: ʒâŋ ʒầŋ

English meaning : to conceal, store

Russian meaning[s]: 1) прятать; хранить, сберегать; скрывать; обнаруживать; 2) Цан (фамилия); [zàng] 1) склад; кладовая; хранилище; амбар; 2) внутренности, внутренние органы; 3) Тибет; тибетцы

Comments: For *ʒ́h- cf. Xiamen chɔŋ², Chaozhou chaŋ², Longdu choŋ². Also read *ʒ́hāŋ-s, MC ʒầŋ, Mand. zàng, Viet. tạng 'a store, treasure'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 140

Four-angle index: 6889

Karlgren code: 0727 |g ́

Vietnamese reading: tàng

Jianchuan Bai: cõ7

Bijiang Bai: -cõ7

Character: 薩

Modern (Beijing) reading: sà

Russian meaning[s]: 1) Са (фамилия); 2) транскрипционный знак

Radical: 140

Four-angle index: 394

Character: 藍

Modern (Beijing) reading: lán

Preclassic Old Chinese: rām

Classic Old Chinese: rām

Western Han Chinese: rām

Eastern Han Chinese: rām

Early Postclassic Chinese: lām

Middle Postclassic Chinese: lām

Late Postclassic Chinese: lām

Middle Chinese: lâm

English meaning : indigo (Polygonum tinctorium)

Russian meaning[s]: 1) бот. индиго; 2) синий; 3) Лань (фамилия)

Comments: The regular Sino-Viet. form is lam; Viet. chàm points to some archaic cluster (*g-rām ?). For *l- cf. Min forms: Xiamen na², Chaozhou lam², Fuzhou, Jianou laŋ².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 140

Four-angle index: 634

Karlgren code: 0609 k

Go-on: ran

Kan-on: ran

Japanese reading: ran;ai

Vietnamese reading: chàm

Dali Bai: la2

Character: 藐

Modern (Beijing) reading: miǎo

English meaning : be far-reaching, extensive

Russian meaning[s]: 1) маленький, слабый, ничтожный; 2) презирать, пренебрегать, смотреть свысока; 3) далекий; далеко

Radical: 140

Four-angle index: 7410

Karlgren code: 1171 c