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Modern (Beijing) reading: lǜ
Preclassic Old Chinese: rok
Classic Old Chinese: rok
Western Han Chinese: rok
Eastern Han Chinese: rok
Early Postclassic Chinese: lok
Middle Postclassic Chinese: lok
Late Postclassic Chinese: lok
Middle Chinese: löuk
English meaning : green; name of a plant
Russian meaning[s]: 1) зеленый; черный (о волосах); 2) молодой; 3) сокр. хлор
Comments: A colloquial loan from the same source may be Viet. luốc 'grey; very dirty'. For OC *r- cf. Min forms: Xiamen lik8, Chaozhou lek8, Fuzhou lük8, luok8.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 120
Four-angle index: 5529
Karlgren code: 1208 k
Vietnamese reading: lục
Jianchuan Bai: lü6
Dali Bai: lü6
Shijing occurrences: 27.1, 27.2, 27.3, 55.1, 55.2, 55.3
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ruak
Meaning: leaf
Chinese: 綠 *rok green
Tibetan: khrog-po botanical term, used of leaves standing around the stem.
Burmese: ǝrwak leaf.
Comments: Luce 69. Cf. also Kanauri rāg 'green'. [Cf. also plant names: OC 菉 rok 'name of a plant of uncertain species' (C.: nom d'une plante à feuille de bambou'); Burm. hrauk 'shaddock', Tib. rug 'a potato-like knotty root'.]
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Chinese Dialects :

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Number: 1877
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 通合三入燭來
ZIHUI: 4845 0959
Beijing: ly 3
Jinan: ly 3
Xi'an: lou 11
Taiyuan: luǝʔ 41
Hankou: nou 12
Chengdu: nu 12
Yangzhou: lɔʔ 4
Suzhou: loʔ 41
Wenzhou: lo 42
Changsha: nou 4
Shuangfeng: nǝu 12
Nanchang: liuk 41
Meixian: lit 42
Guangzhou: luk 42
Xiamen: liɔk 42 (lit.); lîk 42
Chaozhou: lek 42
Fuzhou: lyʔ 42
Shanghai: loʔ 42
Zhongyuan yinyun: liu 43
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