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Modern (Beijing) reading: dāo
Preclassic Old Chinese: tāw
Classic Old Chinese: tāw
Western Han Chinese: tāw
Eastern Han Chinese: tāw
Early Postclassic Chinese: tāw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: tāw
Late Postclassic Chinese: tāw
Middle Chinese: tâw
English meaning : knife
Russian meaning[s]: 1) нож; меч; бритва; 2) древн. монета (в форме меча); 3) резец для письма; 4) кипа (бумаги)
Comments: Viet. dao is colloquial; regular Sino-Viet. is d_ao. A related form is probably 鉊 *taw 'big sickle' q.v. (with further parallels).
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 18
Four-angle index: 4176
Karlgren code: 1131 a-b
Vietnamese reading: dao
Jianchuan Bai: -tã4
Dali Bai: -ta5
Bijiang Bai: -ti4
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