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Modern (Beijing) reading: bà
Preclassic Old Chinese: brēʔ
Classic Old Chinese: brḗ
Western Han Chinese: brḗ
Eastern Han Chinese: briḗ
Early Postclassic Chinese: biẹ̄́
Middle Postclassic Chinese: biẹ̄́
Late Postclassic Chinese: biẹ̄́
Middle Chinese: bạ̈́
English meaning : to stop, cease, cancel [L. Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) перестать, прекратить; забастовать; приостановить; 2) отставить; уволить; [-ba] конечная частица предложения или фразы, подчеркивающая оттенки предположения, решительности или приказания; [pí] усталость; усталый, см.
Comments: Also read MC bé, OC *breʔ (FQ 皮彼) id. For *b- cf. Xiamen, Fuzhou pa6, Chaozhou pa4. Since Han used also instead of 疲 *bh(r)aj, MC be, Mand. pí 'tired, exhausted'.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 122
Four-angle index: 7027
Karlgren code: 0026 a
Vietnamese reading: bãi
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *p(r)ejH
Meaning: finish, complete
Chinese: *brē(j)ʔ, *bre(j)ʔ to stop, cease.
Tibetan: dpjis to come to the last, to arrive at the end.
Burmese: prih (OB pri) be finished, completed.
Kachin: boi1 be finished, ended, completed.
Lushai: peiʔ to finish, complete.
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Number: 2050
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 蟹開二上蟹並
ZIHUI: 5007 0017
Beijing: pa 3
Jinan: pa 3
Xi'an: pa 3
Taiyuan: pa 3
Hankou: pa 3
Chengdu: pa 3
Yangzhou: pâ 3
Suzhou: ba_ 32
Wenzhou: ba 22
Changsha: pa 31
Shuangfeng: bo 32
Nanchang: pa 31
Meixian: pha 3
Guangzhou: pa 32
Xiamen: pa 32
Chaozhou: pa 22
Fuzhou: pa 32
Shanghai: pa 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: pa 3
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