Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 拂

Modern (Beijing) reading: fú

Preclassic Old Chinese: phǝt

Classic Old Chinese: phǝt

Western Han Chinese: phǝt

Eastern Han Chinese: phwǝt

Early Postclassic Chinese: phwɨt

Middle Postclassic Chinese: phwɨt

Late Postclassic Chinese: phwɨt

Middle Chinese: phüt

English meaning : to offend, oppose

Russian meaning[s]: 1) сметать; выбивать; подметать; метелка, мухогонка; 2) противиться, сопротивляться; идти против; вопреки, против; 3) стряхивать; встряхнуть; взмахнуть; 4) пройти наискось, срезать угол; [bì] помогать, вм. 弼

Comments: A somewhat later attested meaning (Late Zhou) is 'to stroke, brush, sweep off'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 64

Four-angle index: 4663

Karlgren code: 0500 h

Vietnamese reading: phó't

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