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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *pɨāk
Meaning: white
Chinese: *brāk white.
Lushai: KC: Sho bok.
Kiranti: *bù(k)
Comments: BG: Garo gibok ~ gipok, Dimasa guphu. Ben. 181. Cf. PAA *b[ʔ]ɔ:k 'white'; PAN *pilak 'silver' (Peiros 1998, 224).
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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: bái
Preclassic Old Chinese: brāk
Classic Old Chinese: brāk
Western Han Chinese: brāk
Eastern Han Chinese: brāk
Early Postclassic Chinese: bẹ̄k
Middle Postclassic Chinese: bẹ̄k
Late Postclassic Chinese: bẹ̄k
Middle Chinese: bạ̈ik
Fanqie: 步額
Rhyme class:
English meaning : be white
Russian meaning[s]: 1) белый; светлый; ясный; чистый; побелеть; 2) понятный; популярный; понимать; 3) откровенный; простой; 4) устный, разговорный; живой (о речи); говорить; 5) траурный; 6) пустой; пропуск, белое пятно; 7) побледнеть, измениться в лице; 8) зря, напрасно; безуспешно; 9) Бай, Бо (фамилия)
Shuowen gloss: 西方色也. 陰用事物色白. 從入合二. 二陰數. 凡白之屬皆從白.
Comments: Min forms: Xiamen, Chaozhou peʔ8, Fuzhou pak8, Jianou pa8.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 106
Four-angle index: 1627
Karlgren code: 0782 a-e
Go-on: biyaku
Kan-on: haku
Japanese reading: haku;byaku;shiro;shira;shiroi
Vietnamese reading: bạch
Jianchuan Bai: pɛ2
Dali Bai: per2
Bijiang Bai: pa2
Shijing occurrences: 23.1, 23.2
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Number: 201
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 梗開二入陌並
ZIHUI: 4101 1025
Beijing: pai 12
Jinan: pei 12
Xi'an: pei 12
Taiyuan: pai 1; piǝʔ 41
Hankou: pô 12
Chengdu: pe 12
Yangzhou: pɔʔ 4
Suzhou: ba_ʔ 42
Wenzhou: ba 42
Changsha: pô 4
Shuangfeng: piɛ 12
Nanchang: pɛt 41 (lit.); phak 41
Meixian: phak 42
Guangzhou: pāk 42
Xiamen: pîk 42 (lit.); peʔ 42
Chaozhou: peʔ 42
Fuzhou: peiʔ 42 (lit.); paʔ 42
Shanghai: paʔ 42
Zhongyuan yinyun: pai 41
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Kiranti etymology :

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Proto-Kiranti: *bù(k)
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Meaning: white
Sunwar: bu-ś
Tulung: bubum (cf. also bo- go white (of popped maize, of hair))
Kaling: bubum
Limbu: phokhijā white, phokhām white clay
Yamphu: pokma 'to shine'
Comments: Toba 98 *bubu.
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Limbu dictionary :

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Entry: phɔ
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: adj.
Meaning: white
Comments: khɛN mǝnahaʔ phɔ mɛlɔʔ Those people are white [men].
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Yamphu dictionary :

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Entry: pokma I
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Stem: <pog- ; pok->
Grammar: v.intr.
Meaning: (of a fire or a light) to shine, to give light, to glisten, to twinkle.
Nepali: balnu
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