Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 弔

Modern (Beijing) reading: diào

Preclassic Old Chinese: tēkʷs

Classic Old Chinese: tēwh

Western Han Chinese: tjāwh

Eastern Han Chinese: tiāwh

Early Postclassic Chinese: tiḕw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: tiḕw

Late Postclassic Chinese: tiḕw

Middle Chinese: tièw

English meaning : be sympathetic, gracious, kind; be sad

Russian meaning[s]: 1) соболезнование; выражать соболезнование; траур; носить траур; жалеть, относиться с состраданием; траурная церемония; 2) держать на весу; повесить; висеть; подвесной, вм. 吊; 3) уст. дяо (связка чохов в 1000 штук); 4) поднимать, доставать (напр. воду из колодца)

Comments: Also read *tēkʷ, MC tiek id.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 57

Four-angle index: 4646

Karlgren code: 1165 a-c

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 89

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 弔

MC description : 效開四去嘯端

ZIHUI: 1713 1424

Beijing: tiau 3

Jinan: tiɔ 3

Xi'an: tiau 3

Taiyuan: tiau 3

Hankou: tiau 3

Chengdu: tiau 3

Yangzhou: tiɔ 3

Suzhou: tiä 31

Wenzhou: tiɛ 31

Changsha: tiau 31

Shuangfeng: tiǝ 31

Nanchang: tiɛu 11

Meixian: tiau 3

Guangzhou: tiu 31

Xiamen: tiau 31

Chaozhou: tiǝu 31

Fuzhou: tieu 31

Shanghai: tiɔ 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: tiau 3

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