Character: 毒
Modern (Beijing) reading: dú
Preclassic Old Chinese: dhūk
Classic Old Chinese: dhūk
Western Han Chinese: dhǝ̄uk
Eastern Han Chinese: dhǝ̄uk
Early Postclassic Chinese: dhǝ̄uk
Middle Postclassic Chinese: dhǝ̄uk
Late Postclassic Chinese: dhōk
Middle Chinese: dok
English meaning : poison
Russian meaning[s]: 1) яд, токсин; вирус; ядовитый; пагубный; отравлять; 2) вредный; вредить; жестокий, злобный; ненавидеть
Comments: Viet. has also a colloquial reading nọc (one of the cases of a nasal reflecting an OC dental stop). Another loan from the same source is Viet. thuốc 'medicine, tobacco, poison'. For *dh- cf. Yilan thau6.
Radical: 80
Four-angle index: 4771
Karlgren code: 1016 a
Vietnamese reading: d_ộc
Shijing occurrences: 35.5_
