Comments:Attested in bronze inscriptions, but with unclear meaning.
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0158 q-r
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:yuán
Preclassic Old Chinese:w(h)ar
Classic Old Chinese:w(h)an
Western Han Chinese:w(h)an
Eastern Han Chinese:w(h)an
Early Postclassic Chinese:w(h)an
Middle Postclassic Chinese:w(h)ǝn
Late Postclassic Chinese:w(h)ǝn
Middle Chinese:wǝn
English meaning :to change fields [Shuowen]
Comments:Attested only in Yin inscriptions.
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0164 n-p
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:huán
Preclassic Old Chinese:g(h)ʷān
Classic Old Chinese:g(h)wān
Western Han Chinese:gwān (~ ɣ-)
Eastern Han Chinese:gwān (~ ɣ-)
Early Postclassic Chinese:gwān (~ ɣ-)
Middle Postclassic Chinese:gwān (~ ɣ-)
Late Postclassic Chinese:gwān (~ ɣ-)
Middle Chinese:ɣwân
English meaning :mountain sheep [Shuowen]
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0165 a
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:huán
Preclassic Old Chinese:w(h)ān
Classic Old Chinese:w(h)ān
Western Han Chinese:w(h)ān
Eastern Han Chinese:w(h)ān
Early Postclassic Chinese:w(h)ān
Middle Postclassic Chinese:w(h)ān
Late Postclassic Chinese:w(h)ān
Middle Chinese:ɣwân
English meaning :encircling wall [Shuowen]
Comments:Attested in bronze inscriptions.
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0167 d-e
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:xiòng
Preclassic Old Chinese:hʷēŋs
Classic Old Chinese:hwēŋh
Western Han Chinese:hwēŋh
Eastern Han Chinese:hwiēŋh
Early Postclassic Chinese:hwiḕŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese:hwiḕŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese:hwiḕŋ
Middle Chinese:xwìeŋ
English meaning :distant [LZ]
Comments:Also has a dialectal MC reading xwìen (Pek. xuàn) id. The series is clearly in *-eŋ, and the graphic connection of .... and 奐 may be secondary or accidental.
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0167 g
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:xuàn
Preclassic Old Chinese:hʷēns (~ -ŋs)
Classic Old Chinese:hwēnh
Western Han Chinese:hwjānh
Eastern Han Chinese:hwiānh
Early Postclassic Chinese:hwiḕn
Middle Postclassic Chinese:hwiḕn
Late Postclassic Chinese:hwiḕn
Middle Chinese:xwìen
English meaning :insist, eager [LZ]
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0167 h
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:duān
Preclassic Old Chinese:tōr
Classic Old Chinese:tōn
Western Han Chinese:tōn
Eastern Han Chinese:tōn
Early Postclassic Chinese:tōn
Middle Postclassic Chinese:tōn
Late Postclassic Chinese:tōn
Middle Chinese:twân
English meaning :black straight robe [LZ]
Comments:Cf. 端.
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0168 f
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:duān
Preclassic Old Chinese:tōr
Classic Old Chinese:tōn
Western Han Chinese:tōn
Eastern Han Chinese:tōn
Early Postclassic Chinese:tōn
Middle Postclassic Chinese:tōn
Late Postclassic Chinese:tōn
Middle Chinese:twân
English meaning :a k. of vessel
Comments:Attested in bronze inscriptions.
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0168 g-h
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:chuǎn
Preclassic Old Chinese:thorʔ
Classic Old Chinese:thón
Western Han Chinese:thón
Eastern Han Chinese:ćhón
Early Postclassic Chinese:ćhón
Middle Postclassic Chinese:ćhón
Late Postclassic Chinese:ćhón
Middle Chinese:ćhwén
English meaning :to shake, move
Comments:Attested in Yijing (with the traditionally assigned MC readings c̣hwé and twấ, see below). During LZ used only for a homonymous *thorʔ 'to measure, estimate'. Besides the regular ćhwén MC also has a quite irregular reading c̣hwé (probably a mistake instead of *ćhwé, a normal alternative dialectal development from *thorʔ), and twấ, pointing to an OC variant *tōrʔ.
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0168 q
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:mò
Preclassic Old Chinese:m(h)ājs
Classic Old Chinese:m(h)ājh
Western Han Chinese:m(h)ājh
Eastern Han Chinese:m(h)ǟh
Early Postclassic Chinese:m(h)ā̀
Middle Postclassic Chinese:m(h)ā̀
Late Postclassic Chinese:m(h)ā̀
Middle Chinese:mwầ
English meaning :dust [L.Zhou]
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0017 c
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:suàn
Preclassic Old Chinese:sōnʔs
Classic Old Chinese:swānh
Western Han Chinese:swānh
Eastern Han Chinese:swānh
Early Postclassic Chinese:swā̀n
Middle Postclassic Chinese:swā̀n
Late Postclassic Chinese:swā̀n
Middle Chinese:swần
English meaning :calculate [Shuowen]
Comments:= 算 q.v. It is most probable that the original meaning of the graph was "garlic" (the drawing of which it is) and it was read as *sōr-s ( = 蒜 q.v.); the meaning "calculate" in Shuowen is due to the merger of *-n and *-r by the Han time and a false identification with 算.
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0175 a
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:luán
Preclassic Old Chinese:r(h)ōn
Classic Old Chinese:r(h)wān
Western Han Chinese:r(h)wān
Eastern Han Chinese:r(h)wān
Early Postclassic Chinese:l(h)wān
Middle Postclassic Chinese:l(h)wān
Late Postclassic Chinese:l(h)wān
Middle Chinese:lwân
English meaning :bells on horse's trapping
Comments:Attested in bronze inscriptions; = 鑾 q.v.
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0178 a-b
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:guā
Preclassic Old Chinese:kʷrāj
Classic Old Chinese:kwrāj
Western Han Chinese:kwrāj
Eastern Han Chinese:kwrǟ
Early Postclassic Chinese:kwạ̄
Middle Postclassic Chinese:kwạ̄
Late Postclassic Chinese:kwạ̄
Middle Chinese:kwạ
English meaning :a proper name [L.Zhou]
Comments:In MC also read kwạ̈.
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0018 d
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:pàn
Preclassic Old Chinese:phāns
Classic Old Chinese:phānh
Western Han Chinese:phānh
Eastern Han Chinese:phānh
Early Postclassic Chinese:phā̀n
Middle Postclassic Chinese:phā̀n
Late Postclassic Chinese:phā̀n
Middle Chinese:phwần
English meaning :meat on the side of an animal [LZ]
Comments:Also used for *b(h)ān, MC bwân, Pek. pán "ample, corpulent" (LZ).
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0181 h
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:mán
Preclassic Old Chinese:m(h)ār
Classic Old Chinese:m(h)ān
Western Han Chinese:m(h)ān
Eastern Han Chinese:m(h)ān
Early Postclassic Chinese:m(h)ān
Middle Postclassic Chinese:m(h)ān
Late Postclassic Chinese:m(h)ān
Middle Chinese:mwân
English meaning :even [Han]
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0183 a-b
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:mén
Preclassic Old Chinese:m(h)ǝ̄r
Classic Old Chinese:m(h)ǝ̄n
Western Han Chinese:m(h)ǝ̄n
Eastern Han Chinese:m(h)ǝ̄n
Early Postclassic Chinese:m(h)ǝ̄n
Middle Postclassic Chinese:m(h)ǝ̄n
Late Postclassic Chinese:m(h)ǝ̄n
Middle Chinese:mon
English meaning :red millet
Comments:= 穈 q.v. The original meaning (attested only since Han) is "red gem".
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0183 f
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:nuán
Preclassic Old Chinese:n(h)rōn
Classic Old Chinese:n(h)rwān
Western Han Chinese:ṇ(h)wān
Eastern Han Chinese:ṇ(h)wān
Early Postclassic Chinese:ṇ(h)wạ̄n
Middle Postclassic Chinese:ṇ(h)wạ̄n
Late Postclassic Chinese:ṇ(h)wạ̄n
Middle Chinese:ṇwạn
English meaning :to quarrel [Shuowen]
Comments:Also read *n(h)rōn-s, MC ṇwạ̀n, Pek. nuàn id.
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0189 a-b
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:xián
Preclassic Old Chinese:g(h)rēn
Classic Old Chinese:g(h)rēn
Western Han Chinese:grjān (~ ɣ-)
Eastern Han Chinese:griān (~ ɣ-)
Early Postclassic Chinese:giẹ̄n (~ ɣ-)
Middle Postclassic Chinese:giẹ̄n (~ ɣ-)
Late Postclassic Chinese:giẹ̄n (~ ɣ-)
Middle Chinese:ɣạ̈n
English meaning :to spy on, watch [LZ]
Radical:0
Four-angle index:0
Karlgren code:0191 h
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading:pián
Preclassic Old Chinese:b(h)ar
Classic Old Chinese:b(h)an
Western Han Chinese:b(h)an
Eastern Han Chinese:b(h)an
Early Postclassic Chinese:b(h)en
Middle Postclassic Chinese:b(h)en
Late Postclassic Chinese:b(h)en
Middle Chinese:ben
English meaning :discriminate, arrange, distinguish; punctilious
Comments:The MC readings of the character (ben is the Shiwen reading; Guangyun has bạ̈̀n) were no doubt influenced by 辨 q.v. which is quite different etymologically; the regular MC form should have been *bwǝn.
