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Character: 羽
Modern (Beijing) reading: yǔ
Preclassic Old Chinese: w(h)(r)aʔ
Classic Old Chinese: w(h)(r)á
Western Han Chinese: w(h)(r)á
Eastern Han Chinese: w(h)(r)á
Early Postclassic Chinese: w(h)ó
Middle Postclassic Chinese: w(h)ó
Late Postclassic Chinese: w(h)ó
Middle Chinese: ɦǘ
English meaning : plumes, wings, feathers
Russian meaning[s]: 1) перья, крылья; оперение (у стрел); 2) пятая ступень китайской гаммы
Shuowen gloss: 鳥長毛也.象形.凡羽之屬皆從羽. [138]
Comments: Medial *-r- can not be reconstructed on pure Chinese evidence; it must be postulated because of the Tib. parallel.
Radical: 124
Four-angle index: 3311
Karlgren code: 0098 a-b
Shijing occurrences: 5.1, 27.1_, 33.1_
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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *qʷ(r)ăH
Meaning: wing, feather
Tibetan: sgro a large feather.
Kachin: siŋko1 wings.
Comments: Coblin 78; Gong 47. With suffixed *-ŋ cf.: Karen *kwVN 'fly', Mikir arveŋ 'feather', Hmar vuoŋ 'fly'.
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