Character: 耗
Modern (Beijing) reading: hào
Preclassic Old Chinese: smāws
Classic Old Chinese: m̥āwh
Western Han Chinese: m̥āwh
Eastern Han Chinese: m̥āwh
Early Postclassic Chinese: hwā̀w
Middle Postclassic Chinese: hwā̀w
Late Postclassic Chinese: hwā̀w
Middle Chinese: xầw
English meaning : to diminish, waste
Russian meaning[s]: 1) уменьшаться, пустеть; скудный, неурожайный; 2) тратить, расходовать; потреблять; опустошать, разорять; 3) амортизация; утруска, утечка; 4) затягивать (оттягивать) время; 5) слухи; новости, известия
Comments: In Hanshu there is also attested a reading *māw, MC mâw, Mand. máo 'to be exhausted, lost' (one of the words with negative *m-, thus a non-aspirated initial is probable) - which is obviously a basis for the derivate *s-māw-s (note that Sino-Viet. hao seems to reflect an unattested 平聲 *smāw, MC *xâw). The character 耗 is also sometimes used (since L.Chou) as a substitute of 眊 *m(h)āw 'bad eyesight'.
Radical: 127
Four-angle index: 7214
Karlgren code: 1137 k
Vietnamese reading: hao
