Chinese characters : List with all references

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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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *dhǝ̆w(H)

Meaning: place upright, post

Chinese: 樹 *dhoʔ to plant, placed upright, *dhoʔs tree, 尌 *dhoʔs raise, put up so as to stand, 柱 *dhroʔ pillar.

Tibetan: gdos mast.

Burmese: thu to raise to an erect posture.

Kachin: šǝdo³ a post.

Comments: Cf. PAA *ta:w 'stand'.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 2161

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 樹

MC description : 遇合三去遇襌

ZIHUI: 2885 0898

Beijing: ṣu 3

Jinan: ṣu 3

Xi'an: fu 3

Taiyuan: su 3

Hankou: śy 3

Chengdu: su 3

Yangzhou: su 3

Suzhou: zü 32

Wenzhou: zi_ 32

Changsha: śy 31 (lit.); śy 32

Shuangfeng: ɣy 32

Nanchang: śy 32

Meixian: su 3

Guangzhou: šy 32

Xiamen: su 32; chiu 32

Chaozhou: chiu 32

Fuzhou: söy 32

Shanghai: zü 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: šiu 3

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