Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 乳

Modern (Beijing) reading: rǔ

Preclassic Old Chinese: noʔ

Classic Old Chinese: nó

Western Han Chinese: nwá

Eastern Han Chinese: ńwá

Early Postclassic Chinese: ńwó

Middle Postclassic Chinese: ńwó

Late Postclassic Chinese: ńwó

Middle Chinese: ńǘ

English meaning : milk, breast, to feed (a baby) with milk [L.Zhou]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) груди; вымя; сосцы; 2) молоко; 3) кормить грудью; 4) новорожденный, сосунок, детеныш; 5) рожать; высиживать (птенцов)

Comments: For *ń- cf. Xiamen ʒu³, Chaozhou zu³, Fuzhou ü³.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 5

Four-angle index: 6906

Karlgren code: 0135 a

Vietnamese reading: nhũ

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