Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 嘴

Modern (Beijing) reading: zuǐ

Preclassic Old Chinese: ćojʔ

Classic Old Chinese: cwáj

Western Han Chinese: cwáj

Eastern Han Chinese: cjwáj

Early Postclassic Chinese: cjwáj

Middle Postclassic Chinese: cjwáj

Late Postclassic Chinese: cjwáj

Middle Chinese: cjwé

English meaning : beak [Han]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) рот; клюв; носик; рыльце; 2) наконечник, мундштук; 3) горлышко; 4) выступ; 5) перен. язык, уменье говорить

Comments: Originally written as 觜 (q.v.) and also read OC *ćej, MC cje (FQ 即移) 'a horn-shaped curl on the head of birds and cats'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 30

Four-angle index: 3623

Jianchuan Bai: ćui1-

Dali Bai: ćui1-

Bijiang Bai: ćo1-

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ćŏj (~ ʒ́-,-u-)

Meaning: beak

Chinese: 觜 *ćojʔ beak.

Tibetan: mćhu lip, beak.

Comments: Cf. Kulung chuikaŋ 'front teeth' (?); perhaps also some TB words for 'horn': Sichuan *c̣hV, Naga *cɨ, Manipuri chi. Cf. PAN *qazay 'chin, jaw'.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 1959

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 嘴

MC description : 止合三上紙精

ZIHUI: 9278 1187

Beijing: cuei 2

Jinan: cuei 2

Xi'an: cuei 2

Taiyuan: cuei 2

Hankou: cei 2

Chengdu: cuei 2

Yangzhou: cuǝi 2

Suzhou: cü 2

Wenzhou: ci_ 21

Changsha: cei 2

Shuangfeng: ćy 2

Nanchang: cui 2

Meixian: cui 2

Guangzhou: čö_y 21

Xiamen: cui 2 (lit.)

Chaozhou: chui 31

Fuzhou: chuei 31

Shanghai: ci_ 3

Zhongyuan yinyun: cuei 2

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