Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 拂

Modern (Beijing) reading: fú

Preclassic Old Chinese: phǝt

Classic Old Chinese: phǝt

Western Han Chinese: phǝt

Eastern Han Chinese: phwǝt

Early Postclassic Chinese: phwɨt

Middle Postclassic Chinese: phwɨt

Late Postclassic Chinese: phwɨt

Middle Chinese: phüt

English meaning : to offend, oppose

Russian meaning[s]: 1) сметать; выбивать; подметать; метелка, мухогонка; 2) противиться, сопротивляться; идти против; вопреки, против; 3) стряхивать; встряхнуть; взмахнуть; 4) пройти наискось, срезать угол; [bì] помогать, вм. 弼

Comments: A somewhat later attested meaning (Late Zhou) is 'to stroke, brush, sweep off'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 64

Four-angle index: 4663

Karlgren code: 0500 h

Vietnamese reading: phó't

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phiǝ (-t)

Meaning: wipe, brush off

Chinese: 拂 *phǝt to brush off, wipe off.

Tibetan: ãphji, ãphjid, dbji to wipe, to flot out, ãbji (p. bji, phji) be wiped off.

Comments: Cf. Austric: PAA *pajh 'push off, brush off' (also *po:jh 'sweep, broom'), PAN *payupas 'to sweep'.