Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 所

Modern (Beijing) reading: suǒ

Preclassic Old Chinese: sraʔ

Classic Old Chinese: srá

Western Han Chinese: ṣá

Eastern Han Chinese: ṣá

Early Postclassic Chinese: ṣó

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṣó

Late Postclassic Chinese: ṣó

Middle Chinese: ṣö́

English meaning : place, position, situation

Russian meaning[s]: 1) место, местонахождение; 2) учреждение; контора; бюро; канцелярия; 3) счетный суффикс домов и построек; 4) относительное местоимение в косвенном падеже тот, кого; который; префикс, при котором глагол получает значение объекта действия; 5) с лишним; 6) диал. весь, целиком; частица подлежащего с модальным оттенком; 7) Со (фамилия)

Comments: Also widely used for an homonymous relative pronoun *sraʔ 'which, whom' (originally probably the same word as *sraʔ 'place').

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 63

Four-angle index: 1999

Karlgren code: 0091 a-c

Vietnamese reading: so`'

Shijing occurrences: 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 27.3, 37.3, 46.1, 46.2, 46.3, 54.4

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *răH (s-)

Meaning: place

Chinese: 所 *sraʔ place, position, situation.

Burmese: ǝra place, thing, wherever, whatever (Luce).

Kachin: šǝra² place.

Comments: Luce 6; Ben. 171.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 564

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 所

MC description : 遇合三上語生

ZIHUI: 2076 0284

Beijing: suo 2

Jinan: ṣuǝ 2

Xi'an: fo 2

Taiyuan: suǝ 2

Hankou: so 2

Chengdu: so 2

Yangzhou: so 2

Suzhou: sǝu 2

Wenzhou: sɔ 21

Changsha: so 2

Shuangfeng: sû 2

Nanchang: so 2

Meixian: sɔ 2

Guangzhou: šɔ 21

Xiamen: sɔ 2

Chaozhou: so 21

Fuzhou: su 2

Shanghai: su 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: šu 2

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