Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 尿

Modern (Beijing) reading: niào

Preclassic Old Chinese: nēws (~ -ī-, ~ -kʷs)

Classic Old Chinese: nēwh

Western Han Chinese: njāwh

Eastern Han Chinese: niāwh

Early Postclassic Chinese: niḕw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: niḕw

Late Postclassic Chinese: niḕw

Middle Chinese: nìew

English meaning : to urinate, urine [Tang]

Russian meaning[s]: урина; моча; мочиться

Comments: Viet. t- is rather strange here, so Viet. tiê`u may be quite independent from the Chinese word. Another possible explanation of the Viet. word would be a contraction of the Chinese euphemism for 'urine, urinating' 小便 (MC sjéw-bjèn), see 小. For *n cf. Xiamen zio⁶, Chaozhou zie⁶ (reflecting an unattested variant MC *ńèw, OC *news), Fuzhou nieu⁶, Jianou niau⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 5505

Vietnamese reading: tiê`u

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