Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 鑿

Modern (Beijing) reading: záo

Preclassic Old Chinese: ʒ́hākʷ

Classic Old Chinese: ʒhāuk

Western Han Chinese: ʒhāuk

Eastern Han Chinese: ʒhāuk

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒhāuk

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒhāk

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒhāk

Middle Chinese: ʒâk

English meaning : to bore, chisel out

Russian meaning[s]: 1) бурав; долото; сверло; зубило; 2) долбить; сверлить; вырыть (колодец); 3) паз, отверстие; гнездо; 4) достоверный; настоящий, реальный; [zuò] обдирать рис

Comments: For *ʒ́h cf. Xiamen chak⁸, chɔk⁸, Fuzhou chök⁸, Dongshan chak⁸. Also used for *ćākʷ, MC câk, Mand. zuò 'to be shining, brilliant'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 167

Four-angle index: 376

Karlgren code: 1128 a

Vietnamese reading: tạc

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