Chinese characters : List with all references

Character: 抱

Modern (Beijing) reading: bào

Preclassic Old Chinese: bhūʔ

Classic Old Chinese: bhū́

Western Han Chinese: bhǝ̄́w

Eastern Han Chinese: bhǝ̄́w

Early Postclassic Chinese: bhǝ̄́w

Middle Postclassic Chinese: bhā́w

Late Postclassic Chinese: bhā́w

Middle Chinese: bâẃ

English meaning : to carry in the arms

Russian meaning[s]: 1) обнимать; держать на руках; няньчить; 2) таить на сердце, лелеять; затаить; 3) высиживать (яйца); 4) тесно облегать; точно подходить; 5) Бао (фамилия)

Comments: For OC *bh- cf. Min forms: Xiamen phau⁶, Chaozhou pho⁴, phau⁴, Longdu pho⁶.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Dialectal data: Dialectal data

Radical: 64

Four-angle index: 7106

Karlgren code: 1113 j

Jianchuan Bai: pu1

Dali Bai: po4

Bijiang Bai: bü1

Shijing occurrences: 21.1, 58.1

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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *phǝ̄wH

Meaning: carry (on the shoulder)

Chinese: 抱 *bhūʔ carry in the arms

Burmese: pǝwh carry on the back, LB *pǝwx.

Lushai: pu (put) to carry on the shoulder, KC *t-pu.

Lepcha: bŭ carry

Comments: Sh. 49; Ben. 20. The root should be kept distinct from *p(u)ǝH 'carry on the back', although some confusion was inevitable.

Chinese Dialects :

Number: 581

Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology

Character: 抱

MC description : 效開一上皓並

ZIHUI: 2128 1278

Beijing: pau 3

Jinan: pɔ 3

Xi'an: pau 3

Taiyuan: pau 3

Hankou: pau 3

Chengdu: pau 3

Yangzhou: pɔ 3

Suzhou: bä 32

Wenzhou: bз 22

Changsha: pau 31 (lit.); pau 32

Shuangfeng: bǝ 32

Nanchang: phau 32

Meixian: phau 3

Guangzhou: phou 22

Xiamen: phau 32 (lit.); po 32

Chaozhou: pho 22

Fuzhou: pɔ 32

Shanghai: pɔ 32

Zhongyuan yinyun: pau 3

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