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Modern (Beijing) reading: nǎi
Preclassic Old Chinese: nhǝ̄ʔ
Classic Old Chinese: nhǝ̄́
Western Han Chinese: nhǝ̄́
Eastern Han Chinese: nhǝ̄́
Early Postclassic Chinese: nhǝ̄́
Middle Postclassic Chinese: nhǝ̄́
Late Postclassic Chinese: nhǝ̄́j
Middle Chinese: nʌ́j
English meaning : then, and then, now; your (possess.)
Russian meaning[s]: 1) перед сказуемым то, тогда, и тогда; именно; только тогда; 2) на месте связки именно и есть, является ничем иным, как...; 3) в начале предложения но вот; зато, напротив; однако, но; в то время, прежде; 4) древн. ты, твой; 5) древн. эмфатическая частица
Comments: Regular Sino-Viet. is nãi; cf. perhaps also nay 'now, at present, at this time'. For *nh- cf. Chaozhou nai4.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 4
Four-angle index: 4609
Karlgren code: 0945 a-c
Vietnamese reading: nãy
Shijing occurrences: 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 51.3
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