Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 刀

Modern (Beijing) reading: dāo

Preclassic Old Chinese: tāw

Classic Old Chinese: tāw

Western Han Chinese: tāw

Eastern Han Chinese: tāw

Early Postclassic Chinese: tāw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: tāw

Late Postclassic Chinese: tāw

Middle Chinese: tâw

English meaning : knife

Russian meaning[s]: 1) нож; меч; бритва; 2) древн. монета (в форме меча); 3) резец для письма; 4) кипа (бумаги)

Comments: Viet. dao is colloquial; regular Sino-Viet. is d_ao. A related form is probably 鉊 *taw 'big sickle' q.v. (with further parallels).

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 18

Four-angle index: 4176

Karlgren code: 1131 a-b

Vietnamese reading: dao

Jianchuan Bai: -tã4

Dali Bai: -ta5

Bijiang Bai: -ti4

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Chinese Dialects :

Number: 12

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 刀

MC description : 效開一平豪端

ZIHUI: 0430 1302

Beijing: tau 11

Jinan: tɔ 11

Xi'an: tau 11

Taiyuan: tau 1

Hankou: tau 11

Chengdu: tau 11

Yangzhou: tɔ 11

Suzhou: tä 11

Wenzhou: tз 11

Changsha: tau 11

Shuangfeng: tǝ 11

Nanchang: tau 11

Meixian: tau 11

Guangzhou: tou 11

Xiamen: to 11

Chaozhou: to 11

Fuzhou: tɔ 11

Shanghai: tɔ 1

Zhongyuan yinyun: tau 1

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