Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 胥

Modern (Beijing) reading: xū

Preclassic Old Chinese: sa

Classic Old Chinese: sa

Western Han Chinese: sa

Eastern Han Chinese: sja

Early Postclassic Chinese: sjo

Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjo

Late Postclassic Chinese: sjo

Middle Chinese: sjö

English meaning : mutually, each other, together; to aid, assist

Russian meaning[s]: 1) мелкие служащие; 2) все; вместе; взаимно; 3) накапливать, собирать; 4) помогать; 5) ожидать; 6) отдаленный; разделять; 7) обследовать; 8) маринованные крабы

Comments: Used also for homonymous *sa 'a foreman (in charge of 10 laborers)' and *sa 'to linger, take one's time; expect'. Also read *saʔ, MC sjö́ (FQ 私呂) id.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 130

Four-angle index: 3563

Karlgren code: 0090 e

Go-on: so

Kan-on: siyo

Japanese reading: so;sho;ai;mina;miru;matsu

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ś[ua]

Meaning: that, other

Chinese: 胥 *sa mutually, each other; 相 *saŋ id.

Tibetan: śos the other.

Burmese: su he, she, it (cf. also sǝwʔ this; saŋʔ to fit, correspond).

Lushai: so that, that yonder.

Comments: Cf. also Lush. ču that, which, who; *śĕ- 'this, that'.