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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: qú
Preclassic Old Chinese: ga
Classic Old Chinese: ga
Western Han Chinese: ga
Eastern Han Chinese: ga
Early Postclassic Chinese: go
Middle Postclassic Chinese: go
Late Postclassic Chinese: go
Middle Chinese:
English meaning : be great, grand
Russian meaning[s]: 1) водосточная труба (канава); 2) большой, великий; 3) он
Comments: The character is also used for homonymous words: 'outer rim of a wheel'; 'gutter' (since LZ). For *g- cf. Xiamen ku2, Fuzhou kü2 (Chaozhou khɨ2 is secondary).
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 85
Four-angle index: 5160
Karlgren code: 0095 g
Vietnamese reading: cù'
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