Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 灰

Modern (Beijing) reading: huī

Preclassic Old Chinese: smǝ̄j

Classic Old Chinese: m̥ǝ̄j

Western Han Chinese: m̥ǝ̄j

Eastern Han Chinese: m̥ǝ̄j

Early Postclassic Chinese: hwǝ̄j

Middle Postclassic Chinese: hwǝ̄j

Late Postclassic Chinese: hwǝ̄j

Middle Chinese: xoj

English meaning : ashes, lime [L.Zhou]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) зола, пепел; 2) известь; 3) пепельный, серый (цвет); 4) разбить; 5) 10-е число (в телеграммах)

Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is khôi (with irregular kh-). Viet. vôi may go back to PAA *Cǝ-pVr 'lime' and thus is probably just a fortuitous resemblance.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 86

Four-angle index: 5472

Karlgren code: 0950 a

Vietnamese reading: vôi

Jianchuan Bai: xui4

Dali Bai: xui5

Bijiang Bai: śu4,-fü4-

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