Character: 桃
Modern (Beijing) reading: táo
Preclassic Old Chinese: Łhāw
Classic Old Chinese: Łhāw
Western Han Chinese: Łhāw
Eastern Han Chinese: lhāw
Early Postclassic Chinese: dhāw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: dhāw
Late Postclassic Chinese: dhāw
Middle Chinese: dâw
English meaning : peach (Prunus persica); also used in 桃達 "perhaps: be coming and going and seeing each other"
Russian meaning[s]: 1) персиковое дерево; персик; 2) желто-розовый, персиковый; 3) перен. женская любовь; любовная связь; 4) Тао (фамилия)
Shuowen gloss: 桃果也.從木.兆聲. [239]
Comments: For aspirated *Łh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen, Chaozhou tho2, Fuzhou, Jianou thau2.
Radical: 75
Four-angle index: 7527
Karlgren code: 1145 u
Vietnamese reading: d_ào
Jianchuan Bai: ta7
Dali Bai: ta7
Bijiang Bai: to7
Shijing occurrences: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 24.2
