Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 藥

Modern (Beijing) reading: yào

Preclassic Old Chinese: lakʷ

Classic Old Chinese: lauk

Western Han Chinese: lauk

Eastern Han Chinese: źauk

Early Postclassic Chinese: źauk

Middle Postclassic Chinese: jak

Late Postclassic Chinese: jak

Middle Chinese: jak

English meaning : to give medicine, cure

Russian meaning[s]: 1) лекарство; лекарственный; целебный, целительный; лечить; 2) зелье, отрава; 3) порох; 4) 10-е число (в телеграммах); 5) Яо (фамилия)

Comments: Also used in the diesheng 勺藥 *dakʷ-lakʷ 'peony'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 140

Four-angle index: 5290

Karlgren code: 1125 p

Vietnamese reading: du'ọ'c

Jianchuan Bai: jo6

Dali Bai: jo6

Bijiang Bai: jo6

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *lăkʷ

Meaning: to heal

Chinese: 藥 *lakʷ to give medicine, cure

Burmese: kjak to heal, cicatrize (of a wound)

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 2436

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 藥

MC description : 宕開三入藥以

ZIHUI: 5673 1494

Beijing: iau 3

Jinan: ye 3

Xi'an: yo 11

Taiyuan: yǝʔ 41

Hankou: io 12

Chengdu: yo 12

Yangzhou: iaʔ 4

Suzhou: ia_ʔ 42

Wenzhou: ɦia 42

Changsha: io 4

Shuangfeng: iû 12

Nanchang: iɔk 41

Meixian: jɔk 42

Guangzhou: jö_k 42

Xiamen: iɔk 42 (lit.); ioʔ 42

Chaozhou: ieʔ 42

Fuzhou: yɔʔ 42

Shanghai: iaʔ 42

Zhongyuan yinyun: iau 43

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