Sino-Tibetan etymology : List with all references

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *rŭk

Meaning: bamboo

Chinese: 竹 *truk bamboo.

Kachin: mǝkruʔ³ bamboo sprouts or shoots.

Comments: Cf. PAN *taluk, *taruk 'young plant shoot', TP *P-ntrUk 'bamboo strips' - possibly the source of ST forms.

Chinese characters :

Character: 竹

Modern (Beijing) reading: zhú

Preclassic Old Chinese: truk

Classic Old Chinese: truk

Western Han Chinese: ṭǝuk

Eastern Han Chinese: ṭǝuk

Early Postclassic Chinese: ṭɨuk

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ṭuk

Late Postclassic Chinese: ṭuk

Middle Chinese: ṭük

English meaning : bamboo

Russian meaning[s]: 1) бамбук; 2) трубка; бамбуковые музыкальные инструменты; 3) дощечки для письма; анналы, записи; 4) Чжу (фамилия)

Comments: Used also for a homonymous (or identical?) *truk 'a k. of creeper'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 118

Four-angle index: 2978

Karlgren code: 1019 a-b

Vietnamese reading: trúc

Shijing occurrences: 55.1, 55.3

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 290

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 竹

MC description : 通合三入屋知

ZIHUI: 4554 0853

Beijing: c̣u 12

Jinan: c̣u 11

Xi'an: pfu 11

Taiyuan: cuǝʔ 41

Hankou: cou 12

Chengdu: cu 12

Yangzhou: cɔʔ 4

Suzhou: coʔ 41

Wenzhou: ćiu 41

Changsha: c̣ôu 4

Shuangfeng: ćiû 12

Nanchang: cuk 41

Meixian: cuk 41

Guangzhou: čuk 41

Xiamen: tiɔk 41 (lit.); tîk 41

Chaozhou: tek 41

Fuzhou: töyʔ 41

Shanghai: coʔ 4

Zhongyuan yinyun: čiu 42

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