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Number: 399
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 遇合三平虞奉
ZIHUI: 2015 0771
Beijing: fu 12
Jinan: fu 12
Xi'an: fu 12
Taiyuan: fu 1
Hankou: fu 12
Chengdu: fu 12
Yangzhou: fu 12
Suzhou: vu 12
Wenzhou: vu 32
Changsha: fu 12
Shuangfeng: ɣǝu 12
Nanchang: фu 31
Meixian: fu 12
Guangzhou: fu 12
Xiamen: hu 12
Chaozhou: hu 12
Fuzhou: xu 12
Shanghai: vu 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: fu 12
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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: fú
Preclassic Old Chinese: bha
Classic Old Chinese: bha
Western Han Chinese: bha
Eastern Han Chinese: bhwa
Early Postclassic Chinese: bhwo
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bhwo
Late Postclassic Chinese: bhwo
Middle Chinese:
English meaning : a k. of tree (fu-su)
Russian meaning[s]: 1) поддерживать, подпирать; опираться руками; 2) помогать, выручать; 3) превозмогать, преодолевать, стойко переносить (напр. болезнь); 4) густой (о растительности); 5) бирка гадательная; гадать; 6) Фу (фамилия)
Comments: During Early Zhou attested only within 扶蘇 *bha-sā 'fu-su tree'. Since Late Zhou, however, the basic meaning 'to support, assist' is already attested, as well as a loan usage for *pa (MC pü, Pek. fū) 'breadth of 4 fingers); *bha / *phā (MC bü, pho, Pek. fú, pū) 'to crawl'. For *bh- cf. Longdu phu2, phua2, Yilan phɔ2.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 64
Four-angle index: 5068
Karlgren code: 0101 f
Vietnamese reading: phò
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phă
Meaning: support, assist, trust
Chinese: *bha to support, assist.
Kachin: pha3 to rely, trust in, depend upon.
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