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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: zào
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʒhūʔ
Classic Old Chinese: ʒhū́
Western Han Chinese: ʒhǝ̄́w
Eastern Han Chinese: ʒhǝ̄́w
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒhǝ̄́w
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒhā́w
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒhā́w
Middle Chinese: ʒấw
English meaning : to make, do, act; construct
Russian meaning[s]: 1) создавать, творить; строить, устанавливать; делать; изготовлять, фабриковать; учреждать; 2) сторона (на суде); 3) эпоха, период; время; 4) торопиться; торопливый, поспешный; 5) положить начало, начать; начало; 6) подделывать; фальсифицировать; [zào cào] 1) идти к..., направляться; посетить; 2) достижения, успехи
Comments: Also (with consonant alternation and suffix): *chūʔ-s > *shūʔ-s (MC châẁ, Mand. cào) 'to come, arrive, appear'.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 162
Four-angle index: 6461
Karlgren code: 1051 a-c
Vietnamese reading: tạo
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[ch]ɨ̄w(H)
Meaning: sacrifice
Chinese: *chū(ʔ)s go and offer a sacrifice.
Kachin: (H) ǯau, phǝǯau to sacrifice.
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Chinese Dialects :

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Number: 1306
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 效開一上皓從
ZIHUI: 6644 1338
Beijing: cau 3
Jinan: cɔ 3
Xi'an: chau 3
Taiyuan: cau 3
Hankou: chau 3
Chengdu: chau 3
Yangzhou: cɔ 3
Suzhou: zä 32
Wenzhou: zз 22
Changsha: chau 31
Shuangfeng: ʒǝ 32
Nanchang: chau 32
Meixian: chau 3
Guangzhou: čou 32
Xiamen: co 32
Chaozhou: cau 22
Fuzhou: cɔ 32
Shanghai: zɔ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: cau 3
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