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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: juàn
Preclassic Old Chinese: kʷrenʔ
Classic Old Chinese: kwrén
Western Han Chinese: kwrján
Eastern Han Chinese: kwrán
Early Postclassic Chinese: kwén
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwén
Late Postclassic Chinese: kwén
Middle Chinese: kwén
English meaning : to roll, roll over, turn over
Russian meaning[s]: 1) свиток (книга, картина); 2) книга, тетрадь; том; раздел; 3) экзаменационное сочинение; 4) канцелярское дело; [juǎn] сворачивать, см. 捲; [quán] свернутый; скрученный; завитой; изогнутый
Shuowen gloss: 膝曲也.從**.#聲. [431]
Comments: The word occurs only within one rhyming sequence in *-anʔ, but both xiesheng and external parallels are in favour of reconstructing *-enʔ. Used also within the binome 卷耳 *kʷrenʔ nǝʔ 'cocklebur' (Xanthium strumarium) ("bent ears").

    Also read *kʷrenʔ-s, MC kwèn (FQ 居倦), Mand. juàn 'reel, coil, volume'; *g(h)ʷren, MC gwen (FQ 巨員), Mand. quán 'be bent, curved, curled; handsome, beautiful'.

    In the latter meaning the word is written as 鬈 in Shijing.

    In Vietnamese colloquial readings are cuốn, cuộn, quăn, quắn, quặn and quấn; literary (Sino-Viet.) - quyê`n and quyền (the latter - for MC gwen).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 26
Four-angle index: 7071
Karlgren code: 0226 a
Vietnamese reading: cuốn
Bijiang Bai: kuĩ4
Shijing occurrences: 3.1, 26.3_
Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: fú
Preclassic Old Chinese: pǝk
Classic Old Chinese: pǝk
Western Han Chinese: pǝk
Eastern Han Chinese: pwǝk
Early Postclassic Chinese: pwɨk
Middle Postclassic Chinese: puk
Late Postclassic Chinese: puk
Middle Chinese: pük
English meaning : strap round the leg
Russian meaning[s]: 1) полотнище; полоса материи; полоса, свиток (картина, надпись); счетный суффикс для картин и плакатов; 2) край, граница; пограничная линия
Comments: With this meaning also read bī, MC pɨk, OC *prǝk. More widely used with the meaning 'wide', with an only reading fú, MC pük, OC *pǝk.
Radical: 50
Four-angle index: 1729
Karlgren code: 0933 k
bigchina-oshanin,bigchina-oshanin,
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