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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: qiú
Preclassic Old Chinese: ghu
Classic Old Chinese: ghu
Western Han Chinese: ghǝw
Eastern Han Chinese: ghǝw
Early Postclassic Chinese: ghiw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ghǝw
Late Postclassic Chinese: ghǝw
Middle Chinese: gǝw
English meaning : a k. of jade
Russian meaning[s]: 1) шар; мяч; 2) сфера; глобус; 3) древн. ударная пластинка из яшмы
Comments: Probably 'round, globular jade' - cf. the later meaning of the graph 'globe, sphere, ball'. For *gh- cf. Xiamen khiu2.
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 96
Four-angle index: 5552
Karlgren code: 1066 f
Vietnamese reading: cầu
Jianchuan Bai: ćho2
Dali Bai: ćhou2
Bijiang Bai: ćho2
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