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Number: 264
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 流開三平尤章
ZIHUI: 1558 1521
Beijing: c̣ou 11
Jinan: c̣ou 11
Xi'an: c̣ou 11
Taiyuan: cou 1
Hankou: cou 11
Chengdu: cǝu 11
Yangzhou: côɨ 11
Suzhou: cy 11
Wenzhou: ćiu 11
Changsha: c̣ôu 11
Shuangfeng: ćiû 11
Nanchang: cǝu 11
Meixian: cu 11
Guangzhou: čau 11
Xiamen: ciu 11
Chaozhou: ciu 11
Fuzhou: cieu 11
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Modern (Beijing) reading: zhōu
Preclassic Old Chinese: tu
Classic Old Chinese: tu
Western Han Chinese: tǝw
Eastern Han Chinese: ćǝw
Early Postclassic Chinese: ćiw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćǝw
Late Postclassic Chinese: ćǝw
Middle Chinese: ćǝw
English meaning : province
Russian meaning[s]: 1) стар. округ; область; 2) остров посреди реки; 3) древн. селение в 2500 семей; 4) собираться; 5) Чжоу (фамилия)
Comments: Same as 洲; cf. 周.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 47
Four-angle index: 2782
Karlgren code: 1086 a-c
Vietnamese reading: châu
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *tu ( ~ d-)
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: province, end of the road
Chinese: *tu province; island in a river
Tibetan: mdo district, province, end
Comments: Cf. [*tu].
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Sino-Caucasian etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Caucasian: *dUHV
Meaning: bay, island
Sino-Tibetan: *tu ( ~ d-)
Yenisseian: *tu(ʔ)
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Yenisseian etymology :

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Proto-Yenisseian: *tu
Sino-Caucasian etymology: Sino-Caucasian etymology
Meaning: bay, backwater
Ket: ei-tu (Castr.) "Flussbusen"
Kottish: hau-tu, pl. -an "Flussbusen"
Comments: ССЕ 288. The Kottish form is a compound parallel to Ket ei-tu (pl. ejäŋ tuneŋ) "Flussbusen", in the first part of which we have Ket ēje 'island' (see *h[e]j-). Werner 2, 309,
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