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\data\china\bigchina
Character: 鳥
Modern (Beijing) reading: niǎo
Preclassic Old Chinese: tīwʔ
Classic Old Chinese: tī́w
Western Han Chinese: tjǝ̄́w
Eastern Han Chinese: tiǝ̄́w
Early Postclassic Chinese: tiḗw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: tiḗw
Late Postclassic Chinese: tiḗw
Middle Chinese: tíew
English meaning : bird
Russian meaning[s]: птица; птичий; птичий полет; в форме птицы, птицеобразный
Shuowen gloss: 長尾禽總名也.鳥之足以匕.從匕.凡鳥之屬皆從鳥.
Comments: Initial n- in Mand. is quite enigmatic.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 196
Four-angle index: 4490
Karlgren code: 1116 a
Vietnamese reading: d_iê`u
Shijing occurrences: 2.1, 32.4
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