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Modern (Beijing) reading: biào
Preclassic Old Chinese: bhewʔ
Classic Old Chinese: bhéw
Western Han Chinese: bhjáw
Eastern Han Chinese: bhjáw
Early Postclassic Chinese: bhjéw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bhjéw
Late Postclassic Chinese: bhjéw
Middle Chinese: bjéw
English meaning : to drop, shed; strike
Russian meaning[s]: 1) сигнальный флаг; подавать сигналы флагом; 2) см. 標; [piǎo] опадать, осыпаться
Comments: Also read *phewʔ-s, MC phjèw (FQ 匹妙) id.; *phew, MC phjew (FQ 撫招), Mand. piāo id. (the latter reading particularly with the meaning 'to drop, shed, strike').
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Radical: 64
Four-angle index: 8174
Karlgren code: 1157 l
Shijing occurrences: 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 26.4_
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phĕwH
Meaning: fall, shed
Chinese: *bhewʔ, *phew, *phew(ʔ)s fall down, to shed, to drop.
Tibetan: ãpho (p., i. ãphos) to fall out, to shed (of wheat and corn in general); ãbo, ãbjo 'to shed, pour out'
Comments: Bodo pó to fell. Cf. PAN *sabuq 'drop, fall'.
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