Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 胞

Modern (Beijing) reading: bāo

Preclassic Old Chinese: prū

Classic Old Chinese: prū

Western Han Chinese: prǝ̄w

Eastern Han Chinese: prǝ̄w

Early Postclassic Chinese: pǝ̣̄w

Middle Postclassic Chinese: pạ̄w

Late Postclassic Chinese: pạ̄w

Middle Chinese: pạw

English meaning : placenta; bursa [L.Zhou]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) детское место, послед; 2) утроба; единоутробный; 3) бот. клетка, спора; 4) пузырь

Comments: Also read *phrū, MC phạw (FQ 匹交) id. Viet. bao is a literary reading; there also exists nhau 'placenta', very probably reflecting the same source with additional nasalisation (a rather frequent case in old loanwords).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 130

Four-angle index: 7108

Karlgren code: 1113 b

Vietnamese reading: bao

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *Prū

Meaning: womb, uterus

Chinese: 胞 *pru, *phrū womb.

Tibetan: phru, ãphru uterus, matrix of animals; urinary bladder.

Comments: Bod. 142; Coblin 161; Gong 51. STEDT 293-296 *r-bu ~ pru, listing also forms from Abor-Miri, Miju, Kuki-Chin, Bodo-Garo, Gyarung, LB and Karen. It is worth noting that none of the forms except Chin. and Tib. has any trace of -r- (cf. Lush. bu 'nest', Jingpaw pu-ǯat 'womb', Gyarong ta-pu 'womb, placenta' etc.).