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Modern (Beijing) reading: bié
Preclassic Old Chinese: brat
Classic Old Chinese: brat
Western Han Chinese: brat
Eastern Han Chinese: brat
Early Postclassic Chinese: bet
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bet
Late Postclassic Chinese: bet
Middle Chinese: bet
English meaning : to separate, branch off
Russian meaning[s]: 1) различать; разница, отличие; 2) отделять(ся); разлучаться; разлука; 3) другой; чужой; особый; исключительный; 4) в другом месте; особо; 5) запретительное отрицание; 6) Бе (фамилия)
Comments: For *b cf. Xiamen pat8 (lit. piat8), Chaozhou, Fuzhou piek8, Jianou pie6. Also read MC pet, OC *prat id.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 18
Four-angle index: 2871
Karlgren code: 0292 a
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *prăt (~ bh-)
Meaning: divide, cut off
Chinese: *prat, *brat divide, separate.
Tibetan: (?) phjed half.
Burmese: phrat cut in two, chop off.
Kachin: (H) phjat, phrat to cut, severe (possibly from Burm.).
Comments: Luce 47.
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Number: 333
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 山開三入薛並
ZIHUI: 0446 0321
Beijing: pie 12
Jinan: pie 12
Xi'an: pie 12
Taiyuan: piǝʔ 42
Hankou: pie 12
Chengdu: pie 12
Yangzhou: piǝʔ 4
Suzhou: biôʔ 42
Wenzhou: bi 42
Changsha: pie 4
Shuangfeng: phiɛ 31
Nanchang: phiɛt 41
Meixian: phiɛt 42
Guangzhou: pit 42
Xiamen: piat 42 (lit.); pat 42
Chaozhou: piek 42
Fuzhou: pieʔ 42
Shanghai: pîʔ 42
Zhongyuan yinyun: pie 42
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