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Modern (Beijing) reading: lòu
Preclassic Old Chinese: rhōs
Classic Old Chinese: rhōh
Western Han Chinese: rhwāh
Eastern Han Chinese: rhwāh
Early Postclassic Chinese: lhṑw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lhǝ̄̀w
Late Postclassic Chinese: lhǝ̄̀w
Middle Chinese: lʌ̀w
English meaning : to leak
Russian meaning[s]: 1) протекать, просачиваться; пропускать (воду, пар); 2) проболтаться, разгласить; выдать себя; получить огласку; 3) пропустить, сделать описку; пропуск (в тексте); 4) водяные часы; 5) фистула, свищ; 6) вовлечь, заманить; соблазнить; 7) Лоу (фамилия)
Comments: Also used for a homonymous *rhōs 'secluded'. Viet. also has a more archaic loan from the same source: rò 'to leak'. Regular Sino-Vietnamese is lậu. For *rh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen, Chaozhou lau6, Fuzhou lau5.
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 3933
Karlgren code: 0120 a
Vietnamese reading: láu
Jianchuan Bai: ɣɨ3
Dali Bai: ɣɨ3
Bijiang Bai: ɣɨ2
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Number: 1841
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 流開一去候來
ZIHUI: 3345 1513
Beijing: lou 3
Jinan: lou 3
Xi'an: lou 3
Taiyuan: lou 3
Hankou: nou 3
Chengdu: nǝu 3
Yangzhou: lôɨ 3
Suzhou: löy 32
Wenzhou: lau 32
Changsha: nôu 31 (lit.); nôu 32
Shuangfeng: nie 32
Nanchang: lɛu 32
Meixian: lɛu 3
Guangzhou: lau 32
Xiamen: lɔ 32 (lit.); lau 32; lɔ 32 (lit.); lau 32
Chaozhou: lau 32
Fuzhou: lau 32 (lit.); lau 31
Shanghai: lô 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: lou 3
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