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Chinese
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long; length; forever long; length; forever; always; constantly; chief; head; elder; to grow; to develop
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granule; hoarse; raspy granule; hoarse; raspy; sand; powder; tsar
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trad. (長沙)
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長
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沙
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simp. (长沙)
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长
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沙
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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Character
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長
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沙
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Reading #
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1/2
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1/1
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Modern Beijing (Pinyin)
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cháng
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shā
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Middle Chinese
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‹ drjang ›
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‹ sræ ›
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Old Chinese
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/*Cə--traŋ/
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/*sˁraj/
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English
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long (adj.)
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sand
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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Zhengzhang system (2003)
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Character
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長
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沙
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Reading #
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2/3
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1/2
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No.
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1276
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11025
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Phonetic component
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長
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沙
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Rime group
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陽
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歌
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Rime subdivision
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0
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1
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Corresponding MC rime
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長
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鯊
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Old Chinese
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/*daŋ/
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/*sraːl/
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Proper noun
長沙
- (~市) Changsha (a prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Hunan, in south-central China)
- (~縣) Changsha (a county of Changsha, Hunan, China)
- (historical) Changsha (a former island in the Yangtze estuary in eastern China, now part of Chongming Island)
- Short for 長沙傅/长沙傅.
- (~鎮) Changsha (a town in Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China)
- (~鄉) Changsha (a township in Zongyang, Tongling, Anhui, China)
- (~村) Changsha (a village in Huangqi, Lianjiang, Fuzhou, Fujian, China)
- Cheung Sha (an area on Lantau, Islands district, New Territories, Hong Kong)
Synonyms
- (city): 臨湘/临湘 (Línxiāng) (historical)
Descendants
Others:
Japanese
Etymology
From Chinese 長沙/长沙 (Chángshā).
Proper noun
長沙 • (Chōsa) ←ちやうさ (Tyausa)?
- Changsha (a prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Hunan, in south-central China)
- Changsha (a county of Changsha, Hunan, China)
- (historical) Changsha (a former island in the Yangtze estuary in eastern China, now part of Chongming Island)
- Changsha (a town in Kaizhou district, Chongqing, China)
- Changsha (a township in Zongyang, Tongling, Anhui, China)
- Changsha (a village in Huangqi, Lianjiang, Fuzhou, Fujian, China)
Korean
Proper noun
長沙 • (Jangsa) (hangeul 장사)
- hanja form? of 장사 (“Changsha”)
Vietnamese
Proper noun
長沙
- chữ Hán form of Trường Sa (“Trường Sa”).