Character: 繡
Modern (Beijing) reading: xiù
Preclassic Old Chinese: sikʷs
Classic Old Chinese: siwh
Western Han Chinese: sjǝwh
Eastern Han Chinese: sjǝwh
Early Postclassic Chinese: sjìw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjìw
Late Postclassic Chinese: sjìw
Middle Chinese: sjǝ̀w
English meaning : to embroider; embroidery
Russian meaning[s]: 1) вышивать; вышивка; вышитый; разукрашенный; 2) Сю (фамилия)
Comments: Viet. thêu is a colloquial loan (initial th- is somewhat strange - perhaps it indicates that OC had *sh- here, with an irregular development > MC s- instead of ch-); standard Sino-Viet. is tú.
Radical: 120
Four-angle index: 2055
Karlgren code: 1028 e
Vietnamese reading: thêu
