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Character: 昭
Modern (Beijing) reading: zhāo
Preclassic Old Chinese: taw
Classic Old Chinese: taw
Western Han Chinese: taw
Eastern Han Chinese: ćaw
Early Postclassic Chinese: ćew
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćew
Late Postclassic Chinese: ćew
Middle Chinese: ćew
English meaning : be bright, illustrious;to manifest, enlighten
Russian meaning[s]: 1) освещать, озарять; выяснять; ясный, светлый; очевидный; 2) блистательный, славный; прославлять; 3) Чжао (фамилия)
Comments: Sch. gives also a reading MC ćéw 'be bright, glorious', which I was unable to locate anywhere. Another reading of the character is OC *daw, MC ʒ́ew 'shrined on the left side of the temple'.
Radical: 72
Four-angle index: 1347
Karlgren code: 1131 m
Go-on: seu
Kan-on: seu
Japanese reading: shō;akiraka;teru;terasu
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[t]ăw
Meaning: bright, shine
Burmese: tuh 'to be burnt (of food)' ?
Kachin: tu2 be shining, (H) ǝtu bright, shining, šǝtu to light.
Lepcha: kŭr-dŭ bright as star, brilliant, refulgent, luminous
Comments: Cf. also Jnp. ntho1 fire-brand; Chepang du- 'red'.
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Number: 760
Character: 昭
MC description : 效開三平宵章
ZIHUI: 2507 1352
Beijing: c̣au 11
Jinan: c̣ɔ 11
Xi'an: c̣au 11
Taiyuan: cau 1
Hankou: cau 11
Chengdu: cau 11
Yangzhou: cɔ 11
Suzhou: cä 11
Wenzhou: ćiɛ 11
Changsha: c̣au 11
Shuangfeng: ćiǝ 11
Nanchang: cɛu 11
Meixian: cau 11
Guangzhou: čiu 11
Xiamen: ciau 11
Chaozhou: ciǝu 11
Fuzhou: cieu 11
Shanghai: zɔ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: čiau 1
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