Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 掃

Modern (Beijing) reading: sǎo

Preclassic Old Chinese: sūʔ

Classic Old Chinese: sū́

Western Han Chinese: sǝ̄́w

Eastern Han Chinese: sǝ̄́w

Early Postclassic Chinese: sǝ̄́w

Middle Postclassic Chinese: sā́w

Late Postclassic Chinese: sā́w

Middle Chinese: sấw

English meaning : to sweep, brush

Russian meaning[s]: мести, выметать, сметать; подметать; [sào] 1) метла; 2) уничтожить, сбить; 3) убить (напр. надежду)

Comments: Written originally as 埽.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 64

Four-angle index: 3890

Karlgren code: 1087 g

Jianchuan Bai: ?cho6

Dali Bai: su1

Bijiang Bai: ?ṭho6

Shijing occurrences: 46.1_

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ś(r)ot

Meaning: rub, scrape

Chinese: 刷 *srō̆t scrape clear, brush.

Tibetan: śud (p., f. bśud) to rub, to get scratched.

Kachin: ǝšot³ to graze, touch lightly, (H) ǯot.

Comments: Sh. 71; Luce 51. Cf. PAN *suat 'comb'. The *-t may be suffixed: cf. OC 搔 *sū 'scratch', 掃 *sūʔ 'to sweep, brush', Tib. śu, bśu 'to skin, peel off the skin'.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1171

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 掃

MC description : A: 效開一上皓心; B: 效開一去號心

ZIHUI: A: 2217 1347; B: 2217 1349

Beijing: A: sau 2; B: sau 3

Jinan: A: sɔ 2; B: sɔ 2

Xi'an: A: sau 2; B: sau 3

Taiyuan: A: sau 2; B: sau 3

Hankou: A: sau 2; B: sau 3

Chengdu: A: sau 2; B: sau 3

Yangzhou: A: sɔ 2; B: sɔ 3

Suzhou: A: sä 2; B: sä 31

Wenzhou: A: sз 21; B: sз 31

Changsha: A: sau 2; B: sau 31

Shuangfeng: A: sǝ 2; B: sǝ 31

Nanchang: A: sau 2; B: sau 31

Meixian: A: sau 3; B: sau 3

Guangzhou: A: šou 21; B:

Xiamen: A: so 2 (lit.); sau 2; B: so 31 (lit.); sau 31

Chaozhou: A: sau 31; B: sau 31

Fuzhou: A: sɔ 2; B: sau 31

Shanghai: A: sɔ 3; B: sɔ 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: A: sau 2; B: sau 3

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