Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 售

Modern (Beijing) reading: shòu

Preclassic Old Chinese: dhus

Classic Old Chinese: dhuh

Western Han Chinese: dhǝwh

Eastern Han Chinese: ʒhǝwh

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒhìw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒhǝ̀w

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒhǝ̀w

Middle Chinese: ʒ́ǝ̀w

English meaning : to sell

Russian meaning[s]: 1) продавать; 2) кончиться успехом

Comments: Viet. thầu 'to bargain, contract' is a colloquial loan (together with Chaozhou chiu² pointing to an unattested MC variant *ʒ́ǝw, OC *dhu); standard Sino-Viet. is thụ.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 30

Four-angle index: 1243

Karlgren code: 1091 e

Vietnamese reading: thầu

Shijing occurrences: 35.5_

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