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Modern (Beijing) reading: wú
Preclassic Old Chinese: ma
Classic Old Chinese: ma
Western Han Chinese: ma
Eastern Han Chinese: mwa
Early Postclassic Chinese: mwo
Middle Postclassic Chinese: mwo
Late Postclassic Chinese: mwo
Middle Chinese:
English meaning : there is no, have no; don't!
Russian meaning[s]: 1) не иметь; отсутствовать; лишенный; без-; 2) не, нет; еще нет; 3) нельзя, не надо, не смей; 4) древн. междометие о!; 5) У (фамилия)
Shuowen gloss: 亡也.從亡.#聲. [634]
Comments: Prohibitive usage of *ma is attested only since Shijing (see Schüssler 646); earlier it was only expressed by 毋 *mǝ. For initial *m- cf. Min forms: Xiamen bɔ2, Chaozhou bo2, Fuzhou mo2, Jianou mau9. Related negations in Chinese include 莫 *māk, 毋 *mǝ, 亡 *maŋ, 勿 *mǝt and some others.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 86
Four-angle index: 8547
Karlgren code: 0103 a-f
Jianchuan Bai: -mo1
Dali Bai: mu1
Bijiang Bai: -mu1
Shijing occurrences: 2.2, 17.2, 17.3, 23.3, 26.1, 27.3, 29.3, 32.2, 35.1, 49.1, 49.2, 51.3, 52.1, 52.2, 52.3, 54.4, 57.3, 58.1, 58.2
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