Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 樹

Modern (Beijing) reading: shù

Preclassic Old Chinese: dhoʔ

Classic Old Chinese: dhó

Western Han Chinese: dhwá

Eastern Han Chinese: ʒhwá

Early Postclassic Chinese: ʒhwó

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʒhwó

Late Postclassic Chinese: ʒhwó

Middle Chinese: ʒ́ǘ

English meaning : to plant, place upright

Russian meaning[s]: 1) дерево; 2) сажать, культивировать; прививать; 3) воздвигать; ставить; 4) экран, ширма

Comments: A somewhat later meaning (attested since L.Zhou) is ('smth. planted' >) 'plant, tree'. Also read *dhoʔ-s, MC ʒ́ǜ (FQ 常句) id. For OC *dh- cf. Min reflexes: Xiamen, Chaozhou, Fuzhou chiu⁶, Longdu chiaw⁵, Jianou chiu⁶. Related to 柱 *dhroʔ 'post, pillar' q.v.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 75

Four-angle index: 3097

Karlgren code: 0127 j-l

Vietnamese reading: thụ

Jianchuan Bai: cɨ3

Dali Bai: cɨ3

Bijiang Bai: ḍɨ2

Shijing occurrences: 50.1

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