Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 澇

Modern (Beijing) reading: lào

Preclassic Old Chinese: rāws

Classic Old Chinese: rāwh

Western Han Chinese: rāwh

Eastern Han Chinese: rāwh

Early Postclassic Chinese: lā̀w

Middle Postclassic Chinese: lā̀w

Late Postclassic Chinese: lā̀w

Middle Chinese: lầw

English meaning : water stream [Jin]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) дожди, дождливая погода (в противоположность засухе); 2) затоплять(ся)

Comments: Also read *rāw ( > unattested MC lâw, whence mod. láo, Chaozhou lau²), *rāwʔ > MC lấw; for *r cf. also Xiamen lo⁶, Fuzhou lɔ⁶. Attested already since Han (but only as a river name).

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 85

Four-angle index: 4744

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