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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ś(r)ot
Meaning: rub, scrape
Chinese: *srō̆t scrape clear, brush.
Tibetan: śud (p., f. bśud) to rub, to get scratched.
Kachin: ǝšot3 to graze, touch lightly, (H) ǯot.
Comments: Sh. 71; Luce 51. Cf. PAN *suat 'comb'. The *-t may be suffixed: cf. OC 搔 *sū 'scratch', 掃 *sūʔ 'to sweep, brush', Tib. śu, bśu 'to skin, peel off the skin'.
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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: shuā
Preclassic Old Chinese: srot
Classic Old Chinese: srwat
Western Han Chinese: ṣwat
Eastern Han Chinese: ṣwat
Early Postclassic Chinese: ṣwet
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṣwet
Late Postclassic Chinese: ṣwet
Middle Chinese: ṣwet
English meaning : to rub, scrape [L.Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) скоблить, счищать; вытирать, чистить; щетка; удалять; пек. диал. выгонять; 2) красить; печатать; [shuà] отбирать; отборный
Comments: A later semantic development is 'to smear, paint > print'; Viet. loát 'to print' apparently reflects some dialectal form without *s- (which would yield a MC form like lwet). Guangyün has both MC ṣwet and ṣwạ̈t (reflecting a neutralisation of -et and -ạ̈t after retroflex initials, especially in labialised syllables).
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 18
Four-angle index: 2856
Karlgren code: 0298 a
Vietnamese reading: loát
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Chinese Dialects :

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Number: 493
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 山合二入轄生
ZIHUI: 0456 0117
Beijing: ṣua 11
Jinan: ṣua 11
Xi'an: fa 11
Taiyuan: suaʔ 41
Hankou: sua 12 (lit.); śya 12
Chengdu: sua 12
Yangzhou: suaʔ 4
Suzhou: sǝʔ 41
Wenzhou: sö 41
Changsha: śya 4
Shuangfeng: sua 12
Nanchang: suɔt 41
Meixian: sɔt 41
Guangzhou: čhāt 43
Xiamen: suat 41
Chaozhou: sueʔ 41
Fuzhou: sauʔ 41
Shanghai: sôʔ 4
Zhongyuan yinyun: šua 43
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