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Chinese characters :
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Character: 枇
Modern (Beijing) reading: pí
Preclassic Old Chinese: bijs
Classic Old Chinese: bić
Western Han Chinese: bjǝś
Eastern Han Chinese: bjǝś
Early Postclassic Chinese: bjiś
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bjìj
Late Postclassic Chinese: bjì
Middle Chinese: bjì
English meaning : comb [Han]
Russian meaning[s]: бот. хива, мушмула японская (Eriobotria japonica)
Comments: For *b cf. Fuzhou pe6, Jianou pi9. Read as *bij, MC bji, modern pí in 枇杷 *bij-brā (Han) 'Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.'. During LZ the character is attested only as a loan for 匕 *pijʔ 'spoon'.
Radical: 75
Four-angle index: 6927
bigchina-reading,bigchina-ochn,bigchina-cchn,bigchina-wchn,bigchina-echn,bigchina-epchn,bigchina-mpchn,bigchina-lpchn,bigchina-mchn,bigchina-meaning,bigchina-oshanin,bigchina-comment,bigchina-stibet,bigchina-radical,bigchina-oshval,
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *P(r)ĭj(-s)
Meaning: comb
Burmese: phih to comb; to comb (cotton).
Kachin: lǝphri3 a rake.
stibet-meaning,stibet-chin,stibet-burm,stibet-kach,
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