Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 226

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 兆

MC description : 效開三上小澄

ZIHUI: 0340 1359

Beijing: c̣au 3

Jinan: c̣ɔ 3

Xi'an: cau 3

Taiyuan: cau 3

Hankou: cau 3

Chengdu: cau 3

Yangzhou: cɔ 3

Suzhou: zä 32

Wenzhou: ʒ́iɛ 22

Changsha: c̣au 31 (lit.); c̣au 32

Shuangfeng: ʒ́iǝ 32

Nanchang: chɛu 32

Meixian: chau 3

Guangzhou: šiu 32

Xiamen: tiau 32

Chaozhou: tiǝu 22

Fuzhou: tieu 32

Shanghai: zɔ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: čiau 3

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Chinese characters :

Character: 兆

Modern (Beijing) reading: zhào

Preclassic Old Chinese: Łhewʔ (~ -a-)

Classic Old Chinese: Łhéw

Western Han Chinese: Łhjáw

Eastern Han Chinese: lhjáw

Early Postclassic Chinese: dhjéw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: dhjéw

Late Postclassic Chinese: dhjéw

Middle Chinese: ḍéw

English meaning : (perhaps:) a million

Russian meaning[s]: 1) предвестье, признак; предсказание; гадание; 2) миллион; сто миллионов; мириады, великое множество; 3) Чжао (фамилия)

Comments: The basic reading of the character is a homonymous *Łhewʔ (~-a-) 'omen, picture of cracks on oracle bone'; it is attested, however, only since Late Zhou.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 10

Four-angle index: 7516

Karlgren code: 1145 a

Vietnamese reading: triệu

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