Character: 輸
Modern (Beijing) reading: shū
Preclassic Old Chinese: slo
Classic Old Chinese: l̥o
Western Han Chinese: l̥wa
Eastern Han Chinese: śwa
Early Postclassic Chinese: śwo
Middle Postclassic Chinese: śwo
Late Postclassic Chinese: śwo
Middle Chinese: śü
English meaning : to transmit, tilt, overturn
Russian meaning[s]: 1) перевозить; доставлять; транспортировать; 2) вносить, уплачивать (налоги); 3) сообщать, передавать; 4) проиграть; проигрыш
Comments: A later meaning is ('to turn over' >) 'lose (a game, battle)'. Standard Sino-Viet. is thâu (Viet. thua reflects the Han form *śwa).
Radical: 159
Four-angle index: 8776
Karlgren code: 0125 s
Vietnamese reading: thua
