Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 油

Modern (Beijing) reading: yóu

Preclassic Old Chinese: lu

Classic Old Chinese: lu

Western Han Chinese: lǝw

Eastern Han Chinese: źǝw

Early Postclassic Chinese: źiw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: jiw

Late Postclassic Chinese: jiw

Middle Chinese: jǝw

English meaning : oil [Han]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) масло; жир; сало; 2) керосин; нефть; бензин; газолин; 3) лак; глазурь; 4) смазывать маслом; красить масляной краской; 5) увертливый, юркий; юлить

Comments: The character is attested since LZ with the meaning 'flow, overflow' - which is most probably just a variant of 游 q.v. - hence the reading *lu, not *Łu. The meaning 'oil' is only attested since Han. Regular Sino-Vietnamese is du.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 1812

Karlgren code: 1079 c

Vietnamese reading: dầu

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*ju(a)]

Meaning: fat, oil

Chinese: 油 *lu oil

Comments: Not quite reliable: besides Chinese (late attested) the root is only observed in Konyak yao and Sulung: Serdukpen ayo, Bugun ayoi 'fat'.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 618

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 油

MC description : 流開三平尤以

ZIHUI: 3111 1616

Beijing: iou 12

Jinan: iou 12

Xi'an: iou 12

Taiyuan: iou 1

Hankou: iou 12

Chengdu: iǝu 12

Yangzhou: iôɨ 12

Suzhou: iöy 12

Wenzhou: ɦiau 12

Changsha: iôu 12

Shuangfeng: iû 12

Nanchang: iu 31

Meixian: jiu 12

Guangzhou: jau 12

Xiamen: iu 12

Chaozhou: iu 12

Fuzhou: ieu 12

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