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Character: 磋
Modern (Beijing) reading: cuō
Preclassic Old Chinese: shāj
Classic Old Chinese: shāj
Western Han Chinese: shāj
Eastern Han Chinese: shǟ
Early Postclassic Chinese: shā
Middle Postclassic Chinese: shā
Late Postclassic Chinese: shā
Middle Chinese: châ
English meaning : to rub, file, polish
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *chɨāj
Meaning: touch, graze
Tibetan: rce to touch.
Burmese: swajh to whet, rub one substance on another in order to sharpen, polish.
Kachin: (H) soi, gǝsoi to graze, almost hit.
Lushai: thoi slightly graze, go or pass close to (cf. also sui (suiʔ) to scrape or trim (with a blade); čhai to caress or fondle).
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