Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 象

Modern (Beijing) reading: xiàng

Preclassic Old Chinese: lhaŋʔ

Classic Old Chinese: lháŋ

Western Han Chinese: lháŋ

Eastern Han Chinese: zháŋ

Early Postclassic Chinese: zháŋ

Middle Postclassic Chinese: zháŋ

Late Postclassic Chinese: zháŋ

Middle Chinese: zjáŋ

English meaning : elephant, ivory

Russian meaning[s]: 1) слон; слоновая кость; слон (фигура в шахматах); 2) изображение, образ, форма, фигура; внешний вид; портрет, картина; статуя; 3) признак; явление; феномен; 4) походить; подражать; изображать; олицетворять; символ

Comments: Used also for an homonymous *lhaŋʔ 'to delineate, outline; appearance, symbol'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 152

Four-angle index: 5620

Karlgren code: 0728 a-d

Vietnamese reading: tu'ọ'ng

Jianchuan Bai: śü̃7

Dali Bai: śa4

Bijiang Bai: ?thõ1

Shijing occurrences: 47.1, 47.2

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