Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 卵

Modern (Beijing) reading: luǎn

Preclassic Old Chinese: rhōnʔ

Classic Old Chinese: rhwā́n

Western Han Chinese: rhwā́n

Eastern Han Chinese: rhwā́n

Early Postclassic Chinese: lhwā́n

Middle Postclassic Chinese: lhwā́n

Late Postclassic Chinese: lhwā́n

Middle Chinese: lwấn

English meaning : egg [LZ]

Russian meaning[s]: яйцо (птицы); икра (рыб); яички (насекомых); биол. яйцо (зародыш); [luǎn lǎn] анат. яички

Comments: For *rh- cf. Xiamen nŋ⁶, Chaozhou nǝŋ⁴, Fuzhou lauŋ⁶, Jianou sɔŋ⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 26

Four-angle index: 2115

Karlgren code: 0179 a

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