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Character: 皤
Modern (Beijing) reading: pó
Preclassic Old Chinese: bār
Classic Old Chinese: bān
Western Han Chinese: bān
Eastern Han Chinese: bān
Early Postclassic Chinese: bān
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bān
Late Postclassic Chinese: bān
Middle Chinese: bwâ
English meaning : be white
Russian meaning[s]: 1) белый; седой; постаревший; 2) отвислый живот; [fān] см. 番
Comments: Also read *pār, MC pwâ (FQ 博禾) id. Written as 番 in Early Zhou.
Radical: 106
Four-angle index: 1774
Karlgren code: 0195 r
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *wār
Meaning: white
Lushai: vār be white; be light (not dark).
Lepcha: ŭr yellow
Comments: Cf. Burm. phwijh be very white, snow-white, Bodo búr become white. Karen *bwV white.
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