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Modern (Beijing) reading: guā
Preclassic Old Chinese: kʷrāt
Classic Old Chinese: kwrāt
Western Han Chinese: kwrāt
Eastern Han Chinese: kwrāt
Early Postclassic Chinese: kwạ̄t
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwạ̄t
Late Postclassic Chinese: kwạ̄t
Middle Chinese: kʷạ̣t
English meaning : to scrape, polish [L.Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) строгать; скоблить; 2) брить; 3) стирать, счищать; 4) сдирать кожу; ободрать; обобрать; 5) дуть (о ветре), см.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 18
Four-angle index: 2821
Karlgren code: 0302 n
Jianchuan Bai: kua4
Dali Bai: kua5
Bijiang Bai: qõ4, ?ua2
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kʷrāt ( ~ gʷ-)
Meaning: scrape, polish
Chinese: *kʷrāt scrape; polish.
Tibetan: bgrad to scratch.
Kachin: khrut2- a whetstone.
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Number: 496
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 山合二入轄見
ZIHUI: 0450 0121
Beijing: kua 11
Jinan: kua 11
Xi'an: kua 11
Taiyuan: kuǝʔ 41; kuaʔ 41
Hankou: kua 12
Chengdu: kua 12
Yangzhou: kuaʔ 4
Suzhou: kuaʔ 41
Wenzhou: ko 41
Changsha: kua 4
Shuangfeng: kuɛ 12
Nanchang: kuat 41
Meixian: kuat 41
Guangzhou: kuāt 43
Xiamen: kuat 41
Chaozhou: kueʔ 41
Fuzhou: kuaʔ 41
Shanghai: kuaʔ 4
Zhongyuan yinyun: kua 42
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