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Number: 259
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 流開三上有書
ZIHUI: 1343 1543
Beijing: ṣou 2
Jinan: ṣou 2
Xi'an: ṣou 2
Taiyuan: sou 2
Hankou: sou 2
Chengdu: sǝu 2
Yangzhou: sôɨ 2
Suzhou: söy 2
Wenzhou: śiu 21
Changsha: ṣôu 2
Shuangfeng: śiû 2
Nanchang: sǝu 2
Meixian: su 2
Guangzhou: šau 21
Xiamen: siu 2
Chaozhou: siu 21
Fuzhou: sieu 2
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Modern (Beijing) reading: shǒu
Preclassic Old Chinese: tuʔ
Classic Old Chinese: tú
Western Han Chinese: tǝ́w
Eastern Han Chinese: ćǝ́w
Early Postclassic Chinese: ćíw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćǝ́w
Late Postclassic Chinese: ćǝ́w
Middle Chinese: śǝ́w
English meaning : to guard, keep
Russian meaning[s]: 1) охранять, защищать, оборонять; 2) удерживать; сохранять; блюсти; держаться (чего-л.); 3) ждать; 4) стар. правитель; 5) душевная чистота; [shòu] зимняя охота, см.
Comments: Also read *tuʔ-s, MC śǝ̀w 'territory in somebody's guard, fief'. For *t (without fricativization) cf. Xiamen ciu3.
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 40
Four-angle index: 3184
Karlgren code: 1099 a-b
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