Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 斬

Modern (Beijing) reading: zhǎn

Preclassic Old Chinese: ćrāmʔ

Classic Old Chinese: crā́m

Western Han Chinese: c̣ā́m

Eastern Han Chinese: c̣ā́m

Early Postclassic Chinese: c̣ạ̄́m

Middle Postclassic Chinese: c̣ạ̄́m

Late Postclassic Chinese: c̣ạ̄́m

Middle Chinese: c̣ạ̈́m

English meaning : to cut off, cut up, destroy

Russian meaning[s]: 1) обезглавить; казнить; отрубить; отрезать; 2) прекратить, оборвать; 3) разом, вместе; все как один; 4) см. 嶄

Comments: The MC reading would rather point to *ćrēmʔ; however, both xiesheng and rhymes point to *ćrāmʔ with irregular MC development. Viet. chém is colloquial; regular Sino-Viet. is tra`m.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 69

Four-angle index: 1992

Karlgren code: 0611 a

Vietnamese reading: chém

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