Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 121

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 主

MC description : 遇合三上噳章

ZIHUI: 0031 0857

Beijing: c̣u 2

Jinan: c̣u 2

Xi'an: pfu 2

Taiyuan: cu 2

Hankou: ću 2

Chengdu: cu 2

Yangzhou: cu 2

Suzhou: cü 2

Wenzhou: ci_ 21

Changsha: ćy 2

Shuangfeng: ty 2

Nanchang: ćy 2

Meixian: cu 2

Guangzhou: čy 21

Xiamen: cu 2

Chaozhou: cu 21

Fuzhou: cy 2

Shanghai: cü 3

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Chinese characters :

Character: 主

Modern (Beijing) reading: zhǔ

Preclassic Old Chinese: toʔ

Classic Old Chinese: tó

Western Han Chinese: twá

Eastern Han Chinese: ćwá

Early Postclassic Chinese: ćwó

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćwó

Late Postclassic Chinese: ćwó

Middle Chinese: ćǘ

English meaning : person in charge, master

Russian meaning[s]: 1) хозяин; глава семьи; владелец; 2) владыка, государь, царь; начальник; 3) бог, божество; христ. господь; 4) место таблички с именем покойника; 5) субъект; собственный, свой; 6) важный, главный, основной; возглавлять; 7) стоять за, высказываться в пользу (чего-л.); 8) считать главным; 9) предвещать

Comments: A more archaic loan in Viet. is chúa 'lord, prince' (cf. the Eastern Han Chinese form *ćwaʔ).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 3

Four-angle index: 354

Karlgren code: 0129 a

Go-on: su

Kan-on: siyu

Japanese reading: shu;nushi;omo;aruji

Vietnamese reading: chu`

Jianchuan Bai: -cɨ1-

Dali Bai: -cɨ1-

Bijiang Bai: -ṭɨ1-

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tŏH (/-k)

Meaning: chief, master

Chinese: 主 *toʔ master, lord, host; principal.

Tibetan: thu a chief; an elder brother.

Kachin: (D) mǝduʔ² have rule and authority over.

Comments: Cf. PAA *tVw, PAN *datu 'master' (see Peiros 1998, 221).