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Modern (Beijing) reading: rù
Preclassic Old Chinese: n(h)a
Classic Old Chinese: n(h)a
Western Han Chinese: n(h)a
Eastern Han Chinese: ń(h)a
Early Postclassic Chinese: ń(h)o
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ń(h)o
Late Postclassic Chinese: ń(h)o
Middle Chinese: ńö
English meaning : marsh
Russian meaning[s]: низкий и болотистый; заболоченный
Comments: Also read *n(h)a-s, MC ńö̀, Mand. rù id. Standard Sino-Viet. is nhu'.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 1086
Karlgren code: 0094 q
Vietnamese reading: nho'
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *nă
Meaning: lowland, meadow
Chinese: *n_a, *n_as marsh.
Tibetan: na meadow.
Kachin: na2 a lowland, field.
Comments: Coblin 107. Cf. also Aka no, Miji nah 'earth'. Cf. Austric: PAN *banua 'inhabited land, territory', PAA *nV 'field', Thai nā 'field'.
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