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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *qhʷăɫ
Meaning: round, circle
Burmese: wanh be round.
Kachin: wan1 be in a circle, be coiled, (H) kǝwan to encircle.
Lushai: val to spread out in concentric waves, valʔ to make a slip-knot, noose or loop, KC *wal.
Comments: Cf. also Lush. hual to surround. The -e-vocalism in some Chinese forms may be due to contamination with 卷 *kʷrenʔ to roll. The Burm. and Jnp. forms can also belong to *qʷār q.v. Sh. 43; Ben 32; Mat. 184. stibet.dbf-meaning,stibet.dbf-chin,stibet.dbf-burm,stibet.dbf-kach,stibet.dbf-lush,stibet.dbf-comments,
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Character: 還
Modern (Beijing) reading: huán hái
Preclassic Old Chinese: whrēn
Classic Old Chinese: whrēn
Western Han Chinese: whrjān
Eastern Han Chinese: whriān
Early Postclassic Chinese: whiẹ̄n
Middle Postclassic Chinese: whiẹ̄n
Late Postclassic Chinese: whiẹ̄n
Middle Chinese: ɣwạn
English meaning : (to come full circle): to turn round, return
Russian meaning[s]: 1) возвратиться, вернуться; восстановиться; 2) возвратить, вернуть; уплатить; 3) Хуань (фамилия); [hái] 1) еще; все еще; сравнительно еще...; 2) все-таки, все же; [xuán] вращаться, вм. 旋
Shuowen gloss: 復也.從**.**聲. [72]
Comments: Also read *when, MC zjwen, Mand. xuán 'to turn around; agile'. OC *whrēn is obviously the same word as 環 *whrēn 'ring'. Rhymes and xie-sheng point unambiguously to *-ēn, thus MC -ạn is irregular (-ạ̈n would be normally expected) - see, however, below.
Radical: 162
Four-angle index: 6594
Karlgren code: 0256 k-m
Vietnamese reading: hoàn
Dali Bai: xua5
Shijing occurrences: 13.3, 39.3
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *qhʷăɫ
Meaning: round, circle
Burmese: wanh be round.
Kachin: wan1 be in a circle, be coiled, (H) kǝwan to encircle.
Lushai: val to spread out in concentric waves, valʔ to make a slip-knot, noose or loop, KC *wal.
Comments: Cf. also Lush. hual to surround. The -e-vocalism in some Chinese forms may be due to contamination with 卷 *kʷrenʔ to roll. The Burm. and Jnp. forms can also belong to *qʷār q.v. Sh. 43; Ben 32; Mat. 184. stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-burm,stibet-kach,stibet-lush,stibet-comments,
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Number: 2317
Character: 還
MC description : 山合二平刪匣
ZIHUI: 6703 1968
Beijing: xuan 12
Jinan: xuã 12
Xi'an: xuã 12
Taiyuan: xuä̃ 1
Hankou: xuan 12
Chengdu: xuan 12
Yangzhou: xuɛ̃ 12
Suzhou: ɦue_ 12
Wenzhou: va 12
Changsha: fan 12
Shuangfeng: ɣuã 12
Nanchang: фuan 31
Meixian: fan 12
Guangzhou: uān 12
Xiamen: hîŋ 12
Chaozhou: hueŋ 12
Fuzhou: xuaŋ 12
Shanghai: ue_ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: xuan 12
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