Chinese Dialects : List with all references

Number: 277

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 曲

MC description : 通合三入燭溪

ZIHUI: 2575 0981

Beijing: ćhy 2; ćhy 11

Jinan: ćhy 11

Xi'an: ćhy 11

Taiyuan: ćhyǝʔ 41

Hankou: ćhy 12

Chengdu: ćhy 12; ćhyo 12

Yangzhou: ćhiɔʔ 4

Suzhou: ćhio 41

Wenzhou: ćhyo 41

Changsha: ćhiôu 4

Shuangfeng: ćhiû 12

Nanchang: ćhiuk 41

Meixian: khiuk 41

Guangzhou: khuk 41

Xiamen: khiɔk 41 (lit.); khîk 41

Chaozhou: khek 41

Fuzhou: khöyʔ 41

Shanghai: ćhyîʔ 4

Zhongyuan yinyun: khiu 42

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Chinese characters :

Character: 曲

Modern (Beijing) reading: qū

Preclassic Old Chinese: khok

Classic Old Chinese: khok

Western Han Chinese: khok

Eastern Han Chinese: khok

Early Postclassic Chinese: khok

Middle Postclassic Chinese: khok

Late Postclassic Chinese: khok

Middle Chinese: khöuk

English meaning : be curved, bent

Russian meaning[s]: 1) кривой; изогнутый; извилистый; извилина, изгиб, излучина; 2) лицемерный; несправедливый; односторонний; 3) окраинный, захолустный; 4) обижать; обида; [qǔ] песня, песенка; ария

Comments: A later meaning (attested since Han) is 'musical piece, melody' (read as qǔ in Mand.); it is not clear, whether this meaning is related to the original 'be curved, bent'. [Bai khü6 has both meanings].

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 73

Four-angle index: 1816

Karlgren code: 1213 a

Vietnamese reading: khúc

Jianchuan Bai: khü6

Dali Bai: khü6

Bijiang Bai: -kho4

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *khjŏk (~ *gh-, qh-, Gh-)

Meaning: bend, crooked

Chinese: 曲 *khok bend, crooked.

Tibetan: gjog curved, crooked, kjag-kjog, kjog-kjog curved, crooked, kjog id., khjog id., ãkhjog crooked, bent.

Lepcha: kjok to be crooked, curved, to wind as river, road; crooked

Comments: Simon 9. Cf. *kŭk.