Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 156

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 句

MC description : 遇合三去遇見

ZIHUI: 0658 0973

Beijing: ćy 3

Jinan: ćy 3

Xi'an: ćy 3

Taiyuan: ćy 3

Hankou: ćy 3

Chengdu: ćy 3

Yangzhou: ćy 3

Suzhou: ćy 31

Wenzhou: ćy 31

Changsha: ćy 31

Shuangfeng: ty 31

Nanchang: ćy 31

Meixian: ki 3

Guangzhou: kö_y 31

Xiamen: ku 31

Chaozhou: ku 31

Fuzhou: kuɔ 31

Shanghai: ćy 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: kiu 3

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Chinese characters :

Character: 句

Modern (Beijing) reading: jù

Preclassic Old Chinese: kos

Classic Old Chinese: koh

Western Han Chinese: kwah

Eastern Han Chinese: kwah

Early Postclassic Chinese: kwò

Middle Postclassic Chinese: kwò

Late Postclassic Chinese: kwò

Middle Chinese: kǜ

English meaning : sentence, clause [Han]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) предложение, фраза; 2) счетный суффикс слов; 3) остановить(ся); [gōu gòu] 1) согнуться; крюк, см. 勾; 2) Гоу (фамилия)

Comments: Viet. câu is colloquial (regular Sino-Viet. is cú) - probably under the influence of another reading of 句, MC kʌw - see under 勾.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 20

Four-angle index: 4312

Karlgren code: 0108 a-b

Vietnamese reading: câu

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kjǝ̄̆w ( ~ g-, q-, G-)

Meaning: hook, curved

Chinese: 句 *kō hook, curved, 痀 *ko crooked spine, 軥 *go, *kō curved exterior part of a yoke.

Tibetan: kjo hook.

Kachin: (H) khau be bent, curved.

Lepcha: gí to slope, to be bent down, to be inclined (?)

Comments: Cf. *kĭw.