Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 舞

Modern (Beijing) reading: wǔ

Preclassic Old Chinese: maʔ

Classic Old Chinese: má

Western Han Chinese: má

Eastern Han Chinese: mwá

Early Postclassic Chinese: mwó

Middle Postclassic Chinese: mwó

Late Postclassic Chinese: mwó

Middle Chinese: mǘ

English meaning : to dance

Russian meaning[s]: 1) танцевать, кружиться, плясать; танец, пляска; 2) играть, забавляться; 3) жонглировать; 4) воодушевлять, поднимать; 5) злоупотреблять

Comments: Viet. múa is an archaic loanword; standard Sino-Viet. is vụ. For *m- cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou bu³.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 136

Four-angle index: 2518

Karlgren code: 0103 g-h

Vietnamese reading: múa

Shijing occurrences: 38.1_, 38.2_

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