Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 耒

Modern (Beijing) reading: lěi

Preclassic Old Chinese: rujʔ

Classic Old Chinese: rwǝ́j

Western Han Chinese: rwǝ́j

Eastern Han Chinese: rwǝ́j

Early Postclassic Chinese: lwíj

Middle Postclassic Chinese: lwíj

Late Postclassic Chinese: lwí

Middle Chinese: lwí

English meaning : plough, plough-handle

Russian meaning[s]: ручки сохи; соха; плуг

Comments: Also read *rūjʔ-s, MC lòj id. Attested already in Yijing, but absent from Schüssler's dictionary. Standard Sino-Viet. is lỗy. For *r cf. Fuzhou lɔi⁶, Jianou lo⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 127

Four-angle index: 5357

Karlgren code: 0578 a

Vietnamese reading: truy

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