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Modern (Beijing) reading: guì
Preclassic Old Chinese: kuts
Classic Old Chinese: kwǝć
Western Han Chinese: kwǝś
Eastern Han Chinese: kwǝś
Early Postclassic Chinese: kwɨś
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwɨ̀j
Late Postclassic Chinese: kwɨ̀j
Middle Chinese: kwɨ̀j
English meaning : precious, valuable; to esteem
Russian meaning[s]: 1) дорогой, ценный; благородный; уважаемый; вежл. Ваш; 2) ценить, уважать; 3) сокр. Гуйчжоу (провинция); 4) Гуй (фамилия)
Comments: Attested already in Yijing, but absent from Schüssler's dictionary.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 154
Four-angle index: 7941
Karlgren code: 0540 b
Vietnamese reading: qúy, qúi
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kŭj (-s)
Meaning: esteem, respect
Chinese: *kujs (~-ts) precious, dear, expensive, eminent; esteem.
Tibetan: gus respect, reverence, devotion, ãkhos worth, value, importance.
Burmese: kǝwh respect, reverence.
Kachin: ko2 respect, to show reverence, (Mat.) ku2 id.
Comments: Mat. 176; Luce 27; Coblin 121.
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Number: 1531
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 止合三去未見
ZIHUI: 6311 1223
Beijing: kuei 3
Jinan: kuei 3
Xi'an: kuei 3
Taiyuan: kuei 3
Hankou: kuei 3
Chengdu: kuei 3
Yangzhou: kuǝi 3
Suzhou: kue_ 31 (lit.); ćy 31
Wenzhou: ćy 31
Changsha: kuei 31
Shuangfeng: kui 31
Nanchang: kui 31
Meixian: kui 3
Guangzhou: kuai 31
Xiamen: kui 31
Chaozhou: kui 32
Fuzhou: kuei 31
Shanghai: kue_ 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: kuei 3
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