Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/kjaŋ

Etymology

 * Proto-Sino-Tibetan: ?
 * Proto-Tibeto-Burman: *kyaŋ (Matisoff, STEDT)

There is perhaps a codaless variant, which may be an allofam or a product from the confusion with other species of Zingiberaceae (e.g. galangal); compare 🇨🇬 (whence, ) ~ ~  ("ginger"), , 🇨🇬, , Lao.

It is unknown how this relates to
 * Proto-Hmongic *qʰinᴮ ("ginger")
 * Proto-Mienic *kʰjuŋᴬ ("ginger") (possibly a Chinese loan)
 * 🇨🇬 (possibly a Chinese loan)
 * Proto-Mienic *kʰjuŋᴬ ("ginger") (possibly a Chinese loan)
 * 🇨🇬 (possibly a Chinese loan)
 * 🇨🇬 (possibly a Chinese loan)
 * 🇨🇬 (possibly a Chinese loan)
 * 🇨🇬 (possibly a Chinese loan)
 * 🇨🇬 (possibly a Chinese loan)



Noun

 * 1) ginger

Descendants

 * Old Chinese:  (B-S; ZS) ("ginger")
 * Middle Chinese:, ,


 * Modern Mandarin
 * Beijing: (jiāng, )
 * Cantonese
 * Guangzhou:
 * Wu
 * Shanghai:
 * Min
 * Min Nan
 * Taiwan:
 * Lolo-Burmese-Naxi
 * Lolo-Burmese
 * Burmish
 * Written
 * Northern
 * Northern
 * Northern
 * Northern
 * Northern
 * Northern