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Modern (Beijing) reading: shén
Preclassic Old Chinese: d(h)ǝmʔ
Classic Old Chinese: d(h)ǝ́m
Western Han Chinese: d(h)ǝ́m
Eastern Han Chinese: ʒ́(h)ǝ́m
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)ím
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)ím
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒ́(h)ím
Middle Chinese: ʒ́ím
English meaning : excessive, very
Russian meaning[s]: какой; [shèn] сильно; очень, весьма; чересчур; [shé sha] что?; какой?
Comments: Also read *d(h)ǝmʔ-s, MC ʒ́ìm id.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 99
Four-angle index: 755
Karlgren code: 0658 a
Vietnamese reading: thậm
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *dh[ǝ̆]mH
Meaning: full, fill
Chinese: *d_ǝmʔ, *d_ǝms excessive, very.
Tibetan: gtam (p. gtams), gtom to fill (cf. also theb full, ãtheb overplus, extra).
Kachin: dem1 be filled to the top.
Lushai: KC *dim > Tiddim dim to be full.
Kiranti: *d(h)ems
Comments: Bahing dyam be full; Vayu dam full, tam fill; Trung dăm1 full. Ben. 52, Sh. 411. Cf. PAA *tVm 'full', Tai tem 'full, filled up'.
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Kiranti etymology :

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Proto-Kiranti: *d(h)ems ( ~ ʔt-)
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Meaning: fill
Tulung: dems- be filled
Limbu: thimmā (thimsu) to fill
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Entry: thimmaʔ, -thims-/-thim-
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: vt.
Meaning: fill up.
Derivation: [caus. < timmaʔ fill up]
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Number: 802
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 深開三上寢襌
ZIHUI: 3928 2078
Beijing: ṣǝn 3
Jinan: ṣẽ 3
Xi'an: sẽ 3
Taiyuan: sǝŋ 3
Hankou: sǝn 3
Chengdu: sǝn 3
Yangzhou: sǝn 3
Suzhou: zǝn 32
Wenzhou: zaŋ 22
Changsha: ṣǝn 31
Shuangfeng: ɣin 32
Nanchang: sǝn 31
Meixian: sǝm 3
Guangzhou: šam 32
Xiamen: sim 32
Chaozhou: sim 22
Fuzhou: seiŋ 32
Shanghai: zǝŋ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: šiǝm 3
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