Character: 橋
Modern (Beijing) reading: qiáo
Preclassic Old Chinese: gaw
Classic Old Chinese: gaw
Western Han Chinese: gaw
Eastern Han Chinese: gaw
Early Postclassic Chinese: gew
Middle Postclassic Chinese: gew
Late Postclassic Chinese: gew
Middle Chinese: gew
English meaning : bridge [LZ]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) мост; настил; настилать; 2) покоробиться; 3) уравновешивать; 4) высокий; перен. отец; 5) Цяо (фамилия)
Comments: Jiyün has also a reading MC khew ( < *khaw) (FQ 丘襖) to gloss the oldest occurrence of the character in Shijing - but there it most probably stands for 喬 *gaw 'high, tall' q.v. Viet. cầu is colloquial; regular Sino-Viet. is kiều. Another loan from the same source (with some semantic change) may be Viet. kèo 'cross-beam; rafter'. For *g- cf. Xiamen kio2, Chaozhou kie2, Fuzhou küo2.
Radical: 75
Four-angle index: 3767
Karlgren code: 1138 g
Vietnamese reading: cầu
Jianchuan Bai: ku7
Dali Bai: ku7
Bijiang Bai: kü7
