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Modern (Beijing) reading: gǔ
Preclassic Old Chinese: kāʔ
Classic Old Chinese: kā́
Western Han Chinese: kā́
Eastern Han Chinese: kā́
Early Postclassic Chinese: kṓ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kṓ
Late Postclassic Chinese: kṓ
Middle Chinese: kó
English meaning : to sell, buy
Russian meaning[s]: 1) торговать, вести торговлю; покупать; 2) купец; 3) навлечь на себя, накликать себе (беду); [jià] цена, см. 價; [jiǎ] Цзя (фамилия)
Comments: Viet. gá is an archaic loan (with a specialized meaning 'to pawn, pledge'); regular Sino-Viet. is cô`. Since Late Zhou the character was also used for *krāʔ-s 'price' (perhaps derived from *kāʔ); the latter word since the Han period was more usually written as 價.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 154
Four-angle index: 7983
Karlgren code: 0038 b
Vietnamese reading: gá
Shijing occurrences: 35.5
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *k(r)āH ( ~ g-)
Meaning: price, trade
Chinese: *krāʔs price, *kāʔ merchant; buy.
Burmese: ǝkhah pay, hire, wages (Luce).
Kachin: (H) ga trade, phǝga id.
Comments: Luce 2.
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Number: 1733
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 假開二上馬見
ZIHUI: 6328 0084
Beijing: ćia 2
Jinan: ćia 2
Xi'an: ćia 2
Taiyuan: ćia 2
Hankou: ćia 2
Chengdu: ćia 2
Yangzhou: ćiâ 2
Suzhou: ćia_ 2 (lit.); ka_ 2
Wenzhou: ko 21
Changsha: ćia 2
Shuangfeng: ćio 2
Nanchang: ka 2
Meixian: ka 2
Guangzhou: ka 21
Xiamen: ka 2
Chaozhou: kia 21
Fuzhou: ka 2
Shanghai: ćia 3
Zhongyuan yinyun: ka 2
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