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Number: 684
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 效開一去號明
ZIHUI: 0379 1296
Beijing: mau 3
Jinan: mɔ 3
Xi'an: mau 3
Taiyuan: mau 3
Hankou: mau 3
Chengdu: mau 3
Yangzhou: mɔ 3
Suzhou: mä 32
Wenzhou: mз 32
Changsha: mau 31 (lit.); mau 32
Shuangfeng: mǝ 31 (lit.); mǝ 32
Nanchang: mau 32
Meixian: mau 3
Guangzhou: mou 32
Xiamen: bɔ 32 (lit.); bɔ̃ 32
Chaozhou: mau 22
Fuzhou: mɔ 32
Shanghai: mɔ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: mau 3
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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: maò
Preclassic Old Chinese: mūʔs (~ -ks)
Classic Old Chinese: mūh
Western Han Chinese: mūh
Eastern Han Chinese: mūh
Early Postclassic Chinese: mū̀
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mū̀
Late Postclassic Chinese: mū̀
Middle Chinese: mầw
English meaning : to cover
Comments: Used also for a homonymous *mūʔ-s 'be covetous'. For *m- cf. Min forms: Xiamen bõ6, Chaozhou mau4, Fuzhou mɔ6, Jianou mau6.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 1062 a-b
Shijing occurrences: 29.1_
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *mō(s)
Meaning: cover
Chinese: *mū(k)s to cover.
Burmese: ǝmǝwh to cover.
Comments: Cf. *mōk. Luce 29.
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