Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 1832

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 構

MC description : 流開一去候見

ZIHUI: 2845 1557

Beijing: kou 3

Jinan: kou 3

Xi'an: kou 3

Taiyuan: kou 3

Hankou: kou 3

Chengdu: kǝu 3

Yangzhou: kôɨ 3

Suzhou: köy 31

Wenzhou: kǝu 31

Changsha: kôu 31

Shuangfeng: kie 31

Nanchang: kiɛu 31

Meixian: kɛu 3

Guangzhou: kau 31

Xiamen: kɔ 31

Chaozhou: kou 31

Fuzhou: kau 31

Shanghai: kôɨ 1

Zhongyuan yinyun: kou 3

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Chinese characters :

Character: 構

Modern (Beijing) reading: gòu

Preclassic Old Chinese: kōs

Classic Old Chinese: kōh

Western Han Chinese: kwāh

Eastern Han Chinese: kwāh

Early Postclassic Chinese: kṑw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: kǝ̄̀w

Late Postclassic Chinese: kǝ̄̀w

Middle Chinese: kʌ̀w

English meaning : fabricate, build; come in contact with, come in conflict with; upper part of house, chamber

Russian meaning[s]: 1) строить, сооружать; конструировать; 2) завершить (окончить) успешно; 3) интриговать, завлекать, вм. 搆; 4) примкнуть к...

Comments: See 覯 etc.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 75

Four-angle index: 4027

Karlgren code: 0109 g

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *kǝ̄w (~g-)

Meaning: cross, crossing, lattice

Chinese: 構, 冓 *kōs lattice, lattice-work; 遘, 覯 *kōs to encounter, meet with.

Burmese: kuh to cross over, transfer.

Kachin: gau¹ to walk as on rail or a rope; to cross, as a stream on a log or narrow bridge.

Comments: Ben. 69; Mat. 178. Hanson gives Burm. kǝwh to walk on water, as nat.