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Character: 臧
Modern (Beijing) reading: zāng
Preclassic Old Chinese: ćāŋ
Classic Old Chinese: cāŋ
Western Han Chinese: cāŋ
Eastern Han Chinese: cāŋ
Early Postclassic Chinese: cāŋ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: cāŋ
Late Postclassic Chinese: cāŋ
Middle Chinese: câŋ
English meaning : be good
Russian meaning[s]: 1) добрый, прекрасный; хвалить; 2) добыча, награбленное добро; 3) раб, слуга; 4) Цзан (фамилия)
Comments: Xiesheng suggests *ć-, but this is one of the very few cases when external evidence contradicts internal reconstruction of palatals (see below); thus OC *cāŋ is also not to be excluded.
Radical: 131
Four-angle index: 6887
Karlgren code: 0727 |f ́
Shijing occurrences: 33.4_, 50.2_, 54.2
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[c]āŋ
Meaning: good
Tibetan: bzaŋ good, fair, beautiful.
Lepcha: čóŋ to be handsome; to be pretty; to be beautiful
Comments: Cf. also Burm. saŋ be useful. Coblin 87; Gong 73. Cf. also: Yintale (Karen) ǯɨ.55, Ao Naga taʒuŋ, Gurung *čhaN, Nocte asan, Naxi ʒ́ǝ.31 'good'.
stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-tib,stibet-lepcha,stibet-kir,stibet-comments,
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Kiranti etymology :
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Proto-Kiranti: *caŋ (/ʔc-)
Meaning: new
kiret-prnum,kiret-meaning,kiret-lim,kiret-yam,
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Limbu dictionary :
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Entry: kɔsɔN, kasaN
Grammar: adj.
Meaning: new.
limet-prnum,limet-pspeech,limet-meaning,
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Yamphu dictionary :
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Entry: coŋ
Grammar: adj.
Meaning: new.
Nepali: nayā
yamet-prnum,yamet-pspeech,yamet-meaning,yamet-nepali,
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Number: 1892
Character: 臧
MC description : 宕開一平唐精
ZIHUI: 5258 2257
Beijing: caŋ 11
Jinan: caŋ 11
Xi'an: caŋ 11
Taiyuan: ca_̃ 1
Hankou: caŋ 11
Chengdu: caŋ 11
Yangzhou: câŋ 11
Suzhou: ca_ŋ 11
Wenzhou: cɔ 11
Changsha: can 11
Shuangfeng: caŋ 11
Nanchang: cɔŋ XH
Meixian: cɔŋ 11
Guangzhou: čɔŋ 11
Xiamen: cɔŋ 11
Chaozhou: caŋ 11
Fuzhou: couŋ 11
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