Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 贅

Modern (Beijing) reading: zhuì

Preclassic Old Chinese: tots

Classic Old Chinese: twać

Western Han Chinese: twaś

Eastern Han Chinese: ćwaś

Early Postclassic Chinese: ćweś

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćwèj

Late Postclassic Chinese: ćwèj

Middle Chinese: ćwèj

English meaning : unite, together

Russian meaning[s]: 1) заложить; продать в рабство; 2) ходить по пятам, ходить следом; 3) остаток; лишний; 4) многословие; тавтология; болтать сверх меры; 5) взять к себе в дом (зятя); 6) собираться

Comments: The character has additional meanings in LZ texts ('excrescence'; 'superfluous').

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 154

Four-angle index: 8041

Karlgren code: 0343 a

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *[t]ŭt

Meaning: tie, knot, connect

Chinese: 贅 *tots unite, together, 綴 *trots to connect, tie together, stitch up.

Tibetan: dud, mthud to tie, to knot, mdud a knot, sdud to collect, gather, put together.

Kachin: mǝtut³ to connect, join.

Lepcha: tŭt, a-tŭt the knuckles of hand (?)

Comments: Garo stit tangle, tie; Trung sǝ³-tɔt¹ to tie. Ben. 101; Peiros-Starostin 217.