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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *riŋ
Meaning: good, fine
Chinese: *rī̆ŋ good.
Kachin: reŋ1 be fine, splendid.
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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: líng
Preclassic Old Chinese: riŋ
Classic Old Chinese: reŋ
Western Han Chinese: reŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: reŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: leŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: leŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: leŋ
Middle Chinese: leŋ
English meaning : be fine, good; to cause
Comments: Also read *rīŋ, MC lieŋ (FQ 郎丁) id.; *riŋ-s, MC lèŋ (FQ 力政), Pek. lìng, Viet. lịnh 'to order, command'. Regular Sino-Viet. is linh. For *r- cf. MC lèŋ > Xiamen liŋ6, Chaozhou leŋ4, Fuzhou leŋ6, Jianou liaŋ6, lɛiŋ6.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 0823 a-e
Vietnamese reading: lành
Shijing occurrences: 32.2
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Chinese Dialects :

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Number: 129
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 梗開三去勁來
ZIHUI: 0109 2556
Beijing: liŋ 3
Jinan: liŋ 3
Xi'an: liŋ 3
Taiyuan: liŋ 3
Hankou: nin 3
Chengdu: nin 3
Yangzhou: lĩ 3
Suzhou: lin 32
Wenzhou: leŋ 32
Changsha: nin 32
Shuangfeng: nin 32
Nanchang: lin 32
Meixian: lin 3
Guangzhou: lîŋ 32
Xiamen: lîŋ 32
Chaozhou: leŋ 22
Fuzhou: leiŋ 32
Shanghai: liŋ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: liǝŋ 3
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