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Modern (Beijing) reading: yuán
Preclassic Old Chinese: whan
Classic Old Chinese: whan
Western Han Chinese: whan
Eastern Han Chinese: whan
Early Postclassic Chinese: whan
Middle Postclassic Chinese: whǝn
Late Postclassic Chinese: whǝn
Middle Chinese: wǝn
English meaning : garden, park
Russian meaning[s]: 1) сад; парк; огород; 2) кабаре; эстрадный театр; 3) императорская могила
Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is viên. For *wh- cf. Xiamen hŋ2, Fuzhou huoŋ2, Chaozhou hŋ2, Jianou xüiŋ2. Some old loanwords from Chinese, as well as Bai forms, point to the existence of an archaic variant *s-whan.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 31
Four-angle index: 1883
Karlgren code: 0256 b
Vietnamese reading: vu'ò'n
Jianchuan Bai: -suã4
Dali Bai: -sua5
Bijiang Bai: -suã4
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