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Character: 笑
Modern (Beijing) reading: xiào
Preclassic Old Chinese: shaws
Classic Old Chinese: shawh
Western Han Chinese: shawh
Eastern Han Chinese: shjawh
Early Postclassic Chinese: shjèw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: shjèw
Late Postclassic Chinese: shjèw
Middle Chinese: sjèw
English meaning : to laugh, smile
Russian meaning[s]: смеяться, улыбаться; высмеивать, насмехаться
Comments: For *sh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen chio5, Chaozhou chie5, Fuzhou chieu5.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 118
Four-angle index: 5020
Karlgren code: 1150 a
Jianchuan Bai: so3
Dali Bai: so3
Bijiang Bai: sü2
Shijing occurrences: 30.1_, 57.2, 58.2
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chăwH (/c-?)
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: laugh, joke
Chinese: 笑 *shaws laugh.
Burmese: sawʔ be foolish, ǝsawh joke.
Kachin: ǯo1, (H) ǯoŋ to ridicule, taunt, sneer at.
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Number: 1022
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character: 笑
MC description : 效開三去笑心
ZIHUI: 4562 1482
Beijing: śiau 3
Jinan: śiɔ 3
Xi'an: śiau 3
Taiyuan: śiau 3
Hankou: śiau 3
Chengdu: śiau 3
Yangzhou: śiɔ 3
Suzhou: siä 31
Wenzhou: śiɛ 31
Changsha: siau 31
Shuangfeng: śiǝ 31
Nanchang: śiɛu 31
Meixian: siau 3
Guangzhou: šiu 31
Xiamen: siau 31 (lit.); sio 31
Chaozhou: chie 31
Fuzhou: chieu 31
Shanghai: siɔ 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: siau 3
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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *[ʒ]VχV́
Meaning: to laugh
Sino-Tibetan: *chV̆wH (/c-?)
Yenisseian: *ǯāq-
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Yenisseian etymology :

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Proto-Yenisseian: *ǯāq-
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: to laugh, laugh
Ket: da:ʁǝ4 (North.), South. daʁ4
Yug: d́a:hx
Kottish: čake "laugh", čakājaŋ "to laugh", praet. čakōlajaŋ, imp. čakālče(i); Ass. čakaigán (М., Сл., Кл.), čaxajia (Кл.) "I laugh"
Arin: sója-keaŋ (М., Сл., Кл.) "I laugh"
Pumpokol: jai-či-du (Сл.) "I laugh"
Comments: ССЕ 309. Werner 1, 175 <*d'aʔǝGǝ>.
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