Where does “” come from?

震 (Chinese) comes from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dar ~ d(u/i)r.

Ancestry of “”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Sino-Tibetan*dar ~ d(u/i)r
Every word from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dar ~ d(u/i)r
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