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Character: 舊
Modern (Beijing) reading: jìu
Preclassic Old Chinese: gʷǝs
Classic Old Chinese: gwǝh
Western Han Chinese: gǝwh
Eastern Han Chinese: gǝwh
Early Postclassic Chinese: gìw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: gǝ̀w
Late Postclassic Chinese: gǝ̀w
Middle Chinese: gǝ̀w
English meaning : be old, ancient (not of people)
Comments: Regular Sino-Viet. is cụ'u. Cf. also Viet. khú, khụ 'very old'. The original meaning of the graph was probably 'owl', but this usage is actually attested only since Han. For *g cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou ku6 , Fuzhou ko6 , Jianou kiu6 .
Radical: 0
Four-angle index: 0
Karlgren code: 1067 c-e
Vietnamese reading: cũ
Jianchuan Bai: kɨ3
Dali Bai: kɨ3
Bijiang Bai: gɨ̃2
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