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Modern (Beijing) reading: yān
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʔan
Classic Old Chinese: ʔan
Western Han Chinese: ʔan
Eastern Han Chinese: ʔan
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʔen
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʔen
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʔen
Middle Chinese: ʔen
English meaning : how; final particle
Russian meaning[s]: 1) вэньянь как?; какой?; что?; где?; откуда?; разве?; 2) в этом, от (из) этого; там; туда; оттуда; 3) древн. конечная частица, выражающая категоричность или сомнение; 4) вм. 然: а) как формант наречий; б) в значении таков же; одинаковый; 5) древн. вм.для выделения члена предложения, иногда с инверсией; 6) древн. то, тогда; поэтому, вм.
Comments: In the sense of "(with)in it" usually read as MC ɦen (a quite irregular case of ɦ- without labialisation). MC ʔen (/ɦen) should be derived from *ʔan (although normally MC *ʔǝn would be expected), because the word is clearly derived from 於 *ʔa.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Radical: 86
Four-angle index: 4474
Karlgren code: 0200 a
Shijing occurrences: 40.1, 40.2, 40.3
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ʔăn
Meaning: in, inside
Chinese: *ʔan in (it).
Burmese: an inside.
Lushai: an in, on.
stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-burm,stibet-lush,

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