Character: 故
Modern (Beijing) reading: gù
Preclassic Old Chinese: kās
Classic Old Chinese: kāh
Western Han Chinese: kāh
Eastern Han Chinese: kāh
Early Postclassic Chinese: kṑ
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kṑ
Late Postclassic Chinese: kṑ
Middle Chinese: kò
English meaning : reason
Russian meaning[s]: 1) причина, повод; 2) поэтому, потому-то; 3) дело; событие, происшествие; несчастье; 4) старый; прежний, бывший; привычный; родной; 5) умереть; покойный; 6) намеренно, нарочно; специально; 7) в сущности, по существу
Comments: Schüssler glosses the word as 'old one', thus hinting at the connection with 古 *kāʔ 'old'. But the word never rhymes in shang-sheng, and thus the meaning in these contexts is probably something like 'original' ( < 'reason, origin'). ? Cf. Tib. khag 'object, importance, significance'.
Radical: 66
Four-angle index: 6165
Karlgren code: 0049 i-j
Shijing occurrences: 36.1_
