Character: 舞
Modern (Beijing) reading: wǔ
Preclassic Old Chinese: maʔ
Classic Old Chinese: má
Western Han Chinese: má
Eastern Han Chinese: mwá
Early Postclassic Chinese: mwó
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mwó
Late Postclassic Chinese: mwó
Middle Chinese: mǘ
English meaning : to dance
Russian meaning[s]: 1) танцевать, кружиться, плясать; танец, пляска; 2) играть, забавляться; 3) жонглировать; 4) воодушевлять, поднимать; 5) злоупотреблять
Comments: Viet. múa is an archaic loanword; standard Sino-Viet. is vụ. For *m- cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou bu3.
Radical: 136
Four-angle index: 2518
Karlgren code: 0103 g-h
Vietnamese reading: múa
Shijing occurrences: 38.1_, 38.2_
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