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Character: 牛
Modern (Beijing) reading: niú
Preclassic Old Chinese: ŋuǝ
Classic Old Chinese: ŋwǝ
Western Han Chinese: ŋwǝ
Eastern Han Chinese: ŋwǝ
Early Postclassic Chinese: ŋiw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ŋǝw
Late Postclassic Chinese: ŋǝw
Middle Chinese: ŋǝw
Fanqie: 宜求
Rhyme class: 尤
English meaning : bovine, cattle, cow, ox
Russian meaning[s]: 1) бык, вол, корова; 2) созвездие Тельца; 3) Ню (фамилия)
Shuowen gloss: 大牲也. 牛件也. 件事理也. 象角頭三封尾之形. 凡牛之屬皆從牛.
Comments: For *ŋ- cf. Xiamen, Chaozhou gu2, Fuzhou ŋu2, Jianou niu2.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 93
Four-angle index: 2469
Vietnamese reading: n'u
Jianchuan Bai: ŋɨ7
Dali Bai: ŋɨ7
Bijiang Bai: ŋɨ7
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