Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 缶

Modern (Beijing) reading: fǒu

Preclassic Old Chinese: puʔ

Classic Old Chinese: pú

Western Han Chinese: pǝ́w

Eastern Han Chinese: pǝ́w

Early Postclassic Chinese: píw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: pǝ́w

Late Postclassic Chinese: pǝ́w

Middle Chinese: pǝ́w

English meaning : earthen jar

Russian meaning[s]: 1) глиняная амфора; 2) древн. глиняный барабан

Comments: The meaning of Viet. phễu ('funnel') is somewhat aberrant, but still it seems likely to be borrowed from Chinese. The standard Sino-Viet. form is phẫu.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 121

Four-angle index: 994

Karlgren code: 1107 a-c

Vietnamese reading: phễu

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