Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 562

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 或

MC description : 曾合一入德匣

ZIHUI: 2057 0313

Beijing: xuo 3

Jinan: xuei 12

Xi'an: xuei 2

Taiyuan: xuǝʔ 42

Hankou: xuô 12

Chengdu: xue 12

Yangzhou: xoʔ 4

Suzhou: ɦoʔ 42

Wenzhou: va 42

Changsha: xo 4

Shuangfeng: xuɛ 12

Nanchang: фuɛt 41

Meixian: fɛt 42

Guangzhou: uak 42

Xiamen: hîk 42

Chaozhou: kok 42

Fuzhou: xöyʔ 42

Shanghai: uaʔ 42

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Chinese characters :

Character: 或

Modern (Beijing) reading: huò

Preclassic Old Chinese: whǝ̄k

Classic Old Chinese: whǝ̄k

Western Han Chinese: whǝ̄k

Eastern Han Chinese: whǝ̄k

Early Postclassic Chinese: whǝ̄k

Middle Postclassic Chinese: whǝ̄k

Late Postclassic Chinese: whǝ̄k

Middle Chinese: ɣwʌk

English meaning : some; somehow, perhaps

Russian meaning[s]: 1) или, либо; 2) может быть, возможно, пожалуй; 3) кто-то; некто, некий; некоторые; 4) древн. кто; 5) сомневаться, вм. 惑; [yù] древн. см. 域

Comments: A -k derivation (distributive) from 有 *whǝʔ 'there is'. In later times widely used in the meaning 'or, either' ( < "some...some...").

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 62

Four-angle index: 6803

Karlgren code: 0929 a-d

Vietnamese reading: hoặc

Shijing occurrences: 19.1

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