Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 巢

Modern (Beijing) reading: cháo

Preclassic Old Chinese: ʒ́(h)rēw

Classic Old Chinese: ʒ(h)rēw

Western Han Chinese: ʒ̣(h)jāw

Eastern Han Chinese: ʒ̣(h)iāw

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒ̣(h)iẹ̄w

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒ̣(h)ạ̄w

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒ̣(h)ạ̄w

Middle Chinese: ʒ̣ạw

English meaning : nest

Russian meaning[s]: 1) гнездо (птицы); логово; притон; приютиться, устроиться; 2) Чао (фамилия)

Comments: Viet. tô` is quite irregular phonetically and may have nothing to do with the Chinese word (cf. Katu *soh 'nest'); standard Sino-Viet. is sào.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 47

Four-angle index: 5379

Karlgren code: 1169 a

Vietnamese reading: tô`

Shijing occurrences: 12.1

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