Character: 蒜

Modern (Beijing) reading: suàn

Preclassic Old Chinese: sōrs

Classic Old Chinese: swānh

Western Han Chinese: swānh

Eastern Han Chinese: swānh

Early Postclassic Chinese: swā̀n

Middle Postclassic Chinese: swā̀n

Late Postclassic Chinese: swā̀n

Middle Chinese: swần

English meaning : garlic [Qi]

Comments: Viet. to`i is an interesting case of replacing MC -n by -i; it probably reflects a variant *swầj with the dialectal development *-r > -j. Standard Sino-Viet. is toán.

Sino-Tibetan etymology:

Dialectal data:

Radical: 0

Four-angle index: 0

Karlgren code: 0175 b

Vietnamese reading: to`i

Jianchuan Bai: suã3

Dali Bai: sua3

Bijiang Bai: suã2