Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 1148

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 巢

MC description : 效開二平肴崇

ZIHUI: 1560 1365

Beijing: c̣hau 12

Jinan: c̣hɔ 12

Xi'an: chau 12

Taiyuan: chau 1

Hankou: chau 12

Chengdu: chau 12

Yangzhou: chɔ 12

Suzhou: zä 12

Wenzhou: zuɔ 11

Changsha: cau 12

Shuangfeng: ʒǝ 12

Nanchang: chau 12

Meixian: chau 12

Guangzhou: čhāu 12

Xiamen: cau 12

Chaozhou: chau 12

Fuzhou: cau 12

Shanghai: zɔ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: čhau 12

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Chinese characters :

Character: 巢

Modern (Beijing) reading: cháo

Preclassic Old Chinese: ʒ́(h)rēw

Classic Old Chinese: ʒ(h)rēw

Western Han Chinese: ʒ̣(h)jāw

Eastern Han Chinese: ʒ̣(h)iāw

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒ̣(h)iẹ̄w

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒ̣(h)ạ̄w

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒ̣(h)ạ̄w

Middle Chinese: ʒ̣ạw

English meaning : nest

Russian meaning[s]: 1) гнездо (птицы); логово; притон; приютиться, устроиться; 2) Чао (фамилия)

Comments: Viet. tô` is quite irregular phonetically and may have nothing to do with the Chinese word (cf. Katu *soh 'nest'); standard Sino-Viet. is sào.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 47

Four-angle index: 5379

Karlgren code: 1169 a

Vietnamese reading: tô`

Shijing occurrences: 12.1

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćh(r)ēw

Meaning: hole, nest

Chinese: 巢 *ʒ́_rēw nest

Lushai: čô (čoʔ) dig a hole, KC *tśo.

Comments: BG: Dimasa dźao, Garo tśoʔ . Sh. 54. Cf. PAA *cVh 'nest' (possibly < Chinese).