Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 求

Modern (Beijing) reading: qiú

Preclassic Old Chinese: gu

Classic Old Chinese: gu

Western Han Chinese: gǝw

Eastern Han Chinese: gǝw

Early Postclassic Chinese: giw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: gǝw

Late Postclassic Chinese: gǝw

Middle Chinese: gǝw

Fanqie: 奇尤

Rhyme class: 尤

English meaning : to seek, ask for

Russian meaning[s]: 1) просить, умолять; требовать; 2) искать; добиваться; домогаться; спрос; иметь потребность

Shuowen gloss: 索也.

Comments: For *g- cf. Min data: Xiamen, Fuzhou kiu², Jianou kiu⁹ (Chaozhou khiu² is secondary).

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 5551

Karlgren code: 1066 a-d

Vietnamese reading: cầu

Shijing occurrences: 1.2_, 9.1_, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 31.3, 33.4, 34.4, 35.4_, 43.1, 43.2, 43.3

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