Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 梁

Modern (Beijing) reading: liáng

Preclassic Old Chinese: raŋ

Classic Old Chinese: raŋ

Western Han Chinese: raŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: reŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: leŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: leŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: leŋ

Middle Chinese: laŋ

English meaning : beam, pole; bridge, dam weir

Russian meaning[s]: 1) мост; перила; 2) стропила; балка, перекладина; 3) выгиб, выступ, выступающая часть; 4) запруда для ловли рыбы; 5) Лян (название княжества); 6) Лян (династия 502 - 556 гг.); 7) Лян (фамилия)

Comments: For *r- cf. Min forms: Xiamen niu², Chaozhou nio², Fuzhou lioŋ².

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 75

Four-angle index: 5238

Karlgren code: 0738 a

Shijing occurrences: 35.3

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