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Character: 婆

Modern (Beijing) reading: pó

Preclassic Old Chinese: b(h)āj

Classic Old Chinese: b(h)āj

Western Han Chinese: b(h)āj

Eastern Han Chinese: b(h)ǟ

Early Postclassic Chinese: b(h)ā

Middle Postclassic Chinese: b(h)ā

Late Postclassic Chinese: b(h)ā

Middle Chinese: bwâ

English meaning : saunter, dance (attested in a compound 婆娑 *b(h)āj-sāj).

Russian meaning[s]: 1) старуха, баба, жена; 2) свекровь; 3) бабушка; бабка

Comments: A later attested meaning is MC bwâ 'old woman', possibly traceable to *bhāj, cf. Chaozhou phua² [but Xiamen po², Fuzhou pɔ², Jianou pɔ⁹].

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 38

Four-angle index: 8854

Karlgren code: 0025 q

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1134

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 婆

MC description : 果合一平戈並

ZIHUI: 1237 0231

Beijing: pho 12

Jinan: phǝ 12

Xi'an: pho 12

Taiyuan: phǝ 1

Hankou: pho 12

Chengdu: pho 12

Yangzhou: pho 12

Suzhou: bu 12

Wenzhou: bo_y 12

Changsha: pho 12

Shuangfeng: bû 12

Nanchang: pho 12

Meixian: phɔ 12

Guangzhou: phɔ 12

Xiamen: po 12

Chaozhou: phua 12

Fuzhou: pɔ 12

Shanghai: pu 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: phuo 12

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