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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: gù
Preclassic Old Chinese: kāʔs
Classic Old Chinese: kāh
Western Han Chinese: kāh
Eastern Han Chinese: kāh
Early Postclassic Chinese: kā̀
Middle Postclassic Chinese: kā̀
Late Postclassic Chinese: kā̀
Middle Chinese: kò
English meaning : to hire [Han]
Russian meaning[s]: нанимать; наемный; [hù] см.
Comments: The original meaning of the graph was "a bird resembling a graph" (actually written as 扈 in the classics). The word *kāʔ-s 'to hire' (derived from 賈 *kāʔ 'merchant, buy' q.v.) appears only since Han.
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 172
Four-angle index: 912
Karlgren code: 0053 d-f
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