Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 笑

Modern (Beijing) reading: xiào

Preclassic Old Chinese: shaws

Classic Old Chinese: shawh

Western Han Chinese: shawh

Eastern Han Chinese: shjawh

Early Postclassic Chinese: shjèw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: shjèw

Late Postclassic Chinese: shjèw

Middle Chinese: sjèw

English meaning : to laugh, smile

Russian meaning[s]: смеяться, улыбаться; высмеивать, насмехаться

Comments: For *sh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen chio⁵, Chaozhou chie⁵, Fuzhou chieu⁵.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 118

Four-angle index: 5020

Karlgren code: 1150 a

Jianchuan Bai: so3

Dali Bai: so3

Bijiang Bai: sü2

Shijing occurrences: 30.1_, 57.2, 58.2

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