Character: 拂
Modern (Beijing) reading: fú
Preclassic Old Chinese: phǝt
Classic Old Chinese: phǝt
Western Han Chinese: phǝt
Eastern Han Chinese: phwǝt
Early Postclassic Chinese: phwɨt
Middle Postclassic Chinese: phwɨt
Late Postclassic Chinese: phwɨt
Middle Chinese: phüt
English meaning : to offend, oppose
Russian meaning[s]: 1) сметать; выбивать; подметать; метелка, мухогонка; 2) противиться, сопротивляться; идти против; вопреки, против; 3) стряхивать; встряхнуть; взмахнуть; 4) пройти наискось, срезать угол; [bì] помогать, вм. 弼
Comments: A somewhat later attested meaning (Late Zhou) is 'to stroke, brush, sweep off'.
Radical: 64
Four-angle index: 4663
Karlgren code: 0500 h
Vietnamese reading: phó't
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