Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 雨

Modern (Beijing) reading: yǔ yù

Preclassic Old Chinese: whaʔ whaʔs

Classic Old Chinese: whá

Western Han Chinese: whá

Eastern Han Chinese: whá

Early Postclassic Chinese: whó

Middle Postclassic Chinese: whó

Late Postclassic Chinese: whó

Middle Chinese: ɦǘ ɦǜ

Fanqie: 余乳 [a] 余遽 [b]

Rhyme class: 麌 [a] 遇 [b]

English meaning : precipitation, rain

Russian meaning[s]: дождь; под дождем; [yù] идти, лить, поливать (о дожде)

Shuowen gloss: 水從雲下也. 一象天門象雲水霝其間也. 凡雨之屬皆從雨.

Comments: Also read *whaʔ-s, MC ɦǜ (FQ 王遇) 'to rain upon, fall'. For *wh- cf. Xiamen hɔ⁶, Chaozhou hou⁴, Jianou xü⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 173

Four-angle index: 3932

Karlgren code: 0100 a-e

Jianchuan Bai: vu1-

Dali Bai: vu1-

Bijiang Bai: -u2

Shijing occurrences: 28.1_, 35.1_, 41.1, 41.2, 50.3, 51.2_

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