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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: fù
Preclassic Old Chinese: b(h)oʔ
Classic Old Chinese: b(h)ó
Western Han Chinese: b(h)wá
Eastern Han Chinese: b(h)wá
Early Postclassic Chinese: b(h)wó
Middle Postclassic Chinese: b(h)wó
Late Postclassic Chinese: b(h)wó
Middle Chinese: bǘ
English meaning : hunchbacked, dwarf [Han]
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *pŭH (~b-)
Meaning: dwarfish, stubby
Chinese: *b_ hunchbacked, dwarf (Han).
Burmese: puʔ be very low, of a small height (cf. also pǝwʔ hump (of a zebu, camel)).
Kachin: dǝbu2 the hump on cattle; (H) wun-bu, bu be stubby.
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