Character: 醜
Modern (Beijing) reading: chǒu
Preclassic Old Chinese: thuʔ
Classic Old Chinese: thú
Western Han Chinese: thǝ́w
Eastern Han Chinese: ćhǝ́w
Early Postclassic Chinese: ćhíw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćhǝ́w
Late Postclassic Chinese: ćhǝ́w
Middle Chinese: ćhǝ́w
English meaning : be ugly, evil, ominous
Comments: Standard Sino-Viet. is xú. Also used for synonymous *thuʔ 'multitude'; *thuʔ 'anus'.
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 1089 a-b
Vietnamese reading: xấu
Shijing occurrences: 46.1_
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