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Modern (Beijing) reading: mò
Preclassic Old Chinese: mǝ̄k
Classic Old Chinese: mǝ̄k
Western Han Chinese: mǝ̄k
Eastern Han Chinese: mǝ̄k
Early Postclassic Chinese: mǝ̄k
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mǝ̄k
Late Postclassic Chinese: mǝ̄k
Middle Chinese: mʌk
English meaning : black-branding
Russian meaning[s]: 1) тушь; чернила; 2) темный; черный; 3) сокр. Мексика; мексиканский; 4) Моцзы
Comments: A somewhat later attested (but probably original) meaning of the word is 'ink, black gum, sepia'. For *m- cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou bak8, Fuzhou möuk8, Jianou mɛ8.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 32
Four-angle index: 248
Karlgren code: 0904 c
Vietnamese reading: mụ'c
Jianchuan Bai: mɨ6
Dali Bai: mɨ6
Bijiang Bai: mɨ2
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