Character: 重
Modern (Beijing) reading: zhòng
Preclassic Old Chinese: dhroŋʔ
Classic Old Chinese: dhróŋ
Western Han Chinese: ḍhóŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: ḍhóŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: ḍhóŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ḍhóŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: ḍhóŋ
Middle Chinese: ḍö́uŋ
English meaning : be heavy
Russian meaning[s]: 1) тяжелый; тяжесть, вес; 2) высокий; глубокий; громкий; акцентированный; густой; 3) тяжкий; серьезный; строгий; 4) важный; считать важным; ценить; уважать; 5) сугубо, сильно; гораздо; [chóng] 1) двойной; повторный; вторично; 2) повторить; удвоить; 3) слой; один на другой, слоями
Comments: For *dh- cf. Jianou thöŋ6. Also read *dhroŋ, MC ḍöuŋ, Mand. chóng, Sino-Viet. trùng 'be double, multiple' (for *dh- here cf. Fuzhou thüŋ2). The latter word is also borrowed in colloquial Viet. as chồng 'pile; to pile up' (the same meaning, going back to *'be double, multiple', is present in Chinese as well). Chin. *dhroŋʔ also meant ('to consider heavy' =) 'to attach importance, to esteem'; in the latter meaning Viet. had borrowed the Chinese word in the shape of chuộng.
Radical: 166
Four-angle index: 458
Vietnamese reading: trọng
Jianchuan Bai: cü̃1
Dali Bai: cü1
Bijiang Bai: ǯõ1
Shijing occurrences: 55.3
