Character: 鞋
Modern (Beijing) reading: xié
Preclassic Old Chinese: ghrē
Classic Old Chinese: ghrē
Western Han Chinese: ɣrē
Eastern Han Chinese: ɣriē
Early Postclassic Chinese: ɣiẹ̄
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ɣiẹ̄
Late Postclassic Chinese: ɣiẹ̄
Middle Chinese: ɣạ̈
English meaning : shoe(s) [Tang]
Russian meaning[s]: туфли; обувь; башмаки, ботинки
Comments: Also read ɣạ̈j (FQ 戶皆) in MC (which is probably a dialectal variant). Regular Sino-Viet. is hài; another Viet. colloquial loan from the same source is hia "mandarin's boots". For *gh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen ue2, Chaozhou oi2, Fuzhou ä2, Jianou ai9.
Radical: 177
Four-angle index: 166
Go-on: ge
Kan-on: kai
Japanese reading: ge;kai;ai;kutsu
Vietnamese reading: giày
Jianchuan Bai: ŋe7
Dali Bai: ŋe7-
Bijiang Bai: -ka7
