Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 雷

Modern (Beijing) reading: léi

Preclassic Old Chinese: rhūj

Classic Old Chinese: rhwǝ̄j

Western Han Chinese: rhwǝ̄j

Eastern Han Chinese: rhwǝ̄j

Early Postclassic Chinese: lhwǝ̄j

Middle Postclassic Chinese: lhwǝ̄j

Late Postclassic Chinese: lhwǝ̄j

Middle Chinese: loj

English meaning : thunder

Russian meaning[s]: 1) гром; гроза; громовой; 2) мина; торпеда; фугас; 3) с шумом бить (ударять); 4) жужжание (насекомых); 5) Лэй (фамилия)

Comments: For *rh- cf. Jianou so2, Jianyang sui2.

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 173

Four-angle index: 1752

Karlgren code: 0577 n-o

Dali Bai: lui7

Shijing occurrences: 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 30.4

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