Character: 賈
Modern (Beijing) reading: gǔ
Preclassic Old Chinese: kāʔ
Classic Old Chinese: kā́
Western Han Chinese: kā́
Eastern Han Chinese: kā́
Early Postclassic Chinese: kṓ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kṓ
Late Postclassic Chinese: kṓ
Middle Chinese: kó
English meaning : to sell, buy
Russian meaning[s]: 1) торговать, вести торговлю; покупать; 2) купец; 3) навлечь на себя, накликать себе (беду); [jià] цена, см. 價; [jiǎ] Цзя (фамилия)
Comments: Viet. gá is an archaic loan (with a specialized meaning 'to pawn, pledge'); regular Sino-Viet. is cô`. Since Late Zhou the character was also used for *krāʔ-s 'price' (perhaps derived from *kāʔ); the latter word since the Han period was more usually written as 價.
Radical: 154
Four-angle index: 7983
Karlgren code: 0038 b
Vietnamese reading: gá
Shijing occurrences: 35.5
