Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 胃

Modern (Beijing) reading: wèi

Preclassic Old Chinese: wǝts

Classic Old Chinese: wǝć

Western Han Chinese: wǝś

Eastern Han Chinese: wǝś

Early Postclassic Chinese: wɨś

Middle Postclassic Chinese: wɨ̀j

Late Postclassic Chinese: wɨ̀j

Middle Chinese: wɨ̀j

English meaning : stomach [Han]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) желудок; 2) название созвездия

Comments: The character is attested since L. Zhou, but only denoting a name of a constellation (the meaning 'stomach', although no doubt archaic, appears only since Han). For *w- cf. Min forms: Xiamen ui⁶, Fuzhou oi⁶, Chaozhou ui⁴.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 130

Four-angle index: 3537

Karlgren code: 0523 a-b

Jianchuan Bai: vu2

Dali Bai: vu2

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