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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: wǔ
Preclassic Old Chinese: maʔ
Classic Old Chinese: má
Western Han Chinese: má
Eastern Han Chinese: mwá
Early Postclassic Chinese: mwó
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mwó
Late Postclassic Chinese: mwó
Middle Chinese: mǘ
English meaning : to dance
Russian meaning[s]: 1) танцевать, кружиться, плясать; танец, пляска; 2) играть, забавляться; 3) жонглировать; 4) воодушевлять, поднимать; 5) злоупотреблять
Comments: Viet. múa is an archaic loanword; standard Sino-Viet. is vụ. For *m- cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou bu3.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 136
Four-angle index: 2518
Karlgren code: 0103 g-h
Vietnamese reading: múa
Shijing occurrences: 38.1_, 38.2_
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mrɨăH
Meaning: dance
Chinese: *m(r)aʔ dance.
Tibetan: bro dance.
Comments: Simon 14.
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Number: 1895
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 遇合三上噳微
ZIHUI: 5294 0943
Beijing: u 2
Jinan: u 2
Xi'an: vu 2
Taiyuan: vu 2
Hankou: u 2
Chengdu: vu 2
Yangzhou: u 2
Suzhou: vu 12
Wenzhou: vu 22
Changsha: u 2
Shuangfeng: ǝu 2
Nanchang: u 2
Meixian: vu 2
Guangzhou: mou 22
Xiamen: bu 2
Chaozhou: bu 21
Fuzhou: u 2
Shanghai: ɦu 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: vu 2
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