Character: 條
Modern (Beijing) reading: tiáo
Preclassic Old Chinese: līw
Classic Old Chinese: līw
Western Han Chinese: ljǝ̄w
Eastern Han Chinese: liǝ̄w
Early Postclassic Chinese: diēw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: diēw
Late Postclassic Chinese: diēw
Middle Chinese: diew
English meaning : be extending branches, extend, long; branch
Russian meaning[s]: 1) ветка, ветвь; отрасль; 2) статья, параграф, пункт; 3) постатейно, по пунктам; по порядку; порядок; 4) записка; 5) полоса; счетный суффикс для имен существительных, обозначающих длинные предметы, продолжительные явления и некоторых животных; 6) Тяо (фамилия)
Shuowen gloss: 小枝也.從木.攸聲. [249]
Comments: Also used for *līw 'orderly' (Sch.: "perhaps this is the same word: 'neatly branched = spread out'), as well as for *līw '(perhaps) a tree like Mallotus japonicus'; for *slīw, MC thieu 'to pull down branches'. For OC *l (not *lh-) cf. Min forms: Xiamen, Jianou tiau2, Chaozhou tiǝu2, Fuzhou tieu2. Later, more abstract, meanings are: ('branch' > ) 'article, clause, paragraph'.
Radical: 9
Four-angle index: 5256
Karlgren code: 1077 f
Vietnamese reading: d_iều
Shijing occurrences: 10.1, 10.2
