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Number: 39
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 效開三上小心
ZIHUI: 1420 1476
Beijing: śiau 2
Jinan: śiɔ 2
Xi'an: śiau 2
Taiyuan: śiau 2
Hankou: śiau 2
Chengdu: śiau 2
Yangzhou: śiɔ 2
Suzhou: siä 2
Wenzhou: śiɛ 21
Changsha: siau 2
Shuangfeng: śiǝ 2
Nanchang: śiɛu 2
Meixian: siau 2
Guangzhou: šiu 21
Xiamen: siau 2 (lit.); sio 2
Chaozhou: siǝu 21
Fuzhou: sieu 2
Shanghai: ziɔ 32
Zhongyuan yinyun: siau 2
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Modern (Beijing) reading: xiǎo
Preclassic Old Chinese: sewʔ
Classic Old Chinese: séw
Western Han Chinese: sjáw
Eastern Han Chinese: sjáw
Early Postclassic Chinese: sjéw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjéw
Late Postclassic Chinese: sjéw
Middle Chinese: sjéw
English meaning : be small, little; young
Russian meaning[s]: 1) маленький, мелкий; немного, слегка; вчерне; уменьшать(ся); 2) второстепенный, незначительный; узкий; 3) молодой; малый; дети; 4) низкий, подлый; 5) вежл. я, мой; 6) префикс имен существительных с уменьшительным, уничижительным, иногда ласкательным значением (часто сна конце); 7) древн. наложница
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 42
Four-angle index: 8163
Karlgren code: 1149 a-d
Vietnamese reading: tiê`u
Jianchuan Bai: śao3-, se3
Dali Bai: se3
Bijiang Bai: sẽ2
Shijing occurrences: 21.1, 21.2, 26.4_
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: [*cǝ̄ŋ]
Meaning: to be, sit
Burmese: LB *ʒauŋ 'sit'
Comments: Cf. also: Miji ʒuŋh, Bodo *soŋ, Chepang ćuŋʔ, Kham cuh, Kaike čhɔŋ-, LB *ʒauŋ, Sichuan *ʒVN 'sit'.
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