Character: 淺
Modern (Beijing) reading: qiǎn
Preclassic Old Chinese: ćhenʔ (~ -a-)
Classic Old Chinese: chén
Western Han Chinese: chján
Eastern Han Chinese: chján
Early Postclassic Chinese: chjén
Middle Postclassic Chinese: chjén
Late Postclassic Chinese: chjén
Middle Chinese: chjén
English meaning : be shallow, thin
Russian meaning[s]: 1) мелкий; мелководье, мель; посадить (сесть) на мель; 2) неглубокий, поверхностный; простой, элементарный; 3) вульгарный, пошлый; 4) светлый, бледный (о цвете)
Comments: The word does not occur in rhymes, and both *-enʔ and *-anʔ are possible; external evidence seems to be in favour of the former, and so does the loan for *ćēn (MC cien, Pek. jiān) 'to flow rapidly' (Chuci).
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 6801
Karlgren code: 0155 k
Go-on: sen
Kan-on: sen
Japanese reading: sen+;asai+
Vietnamese reading: thiê`n
Jianchuan Bai: ćhĩ1
Dali Bai: ćhi1
Shijing occurrences: 34.1, 35.4
