Character: 臭
Modern (Beijing) reading: chòu
Preclassic Old Chinese: khiws
Classic Old Chinese: khiwh
Western Han Chinese: khjǝwh
Eastern Han Chinese: khjǝwh
Early Postclassic Chinese: khjìw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: khjìw
Late Postclassic Chinese: khjìw
Middle Chinese: ćhǝ̀w
English meaning : smell, fragrance, stench
Russian meaning[s]: 1) вонь; вонять; провонять; вонючий; 2) дурной, недостойный; дрянной; бесполезный, негодный; 3) поссориться, поругаться; 4) очень крепко (сильно); [xiù] запах; нюхать, обонять
Comments: In MC there also exists a reading xǝ̀w (Mand. xiù) (Jiyün); it is interesting to note that standard Sino-Viet. renders it as khú'u. These are most probably dialectal variants of the original *khiw-s which gave the standard MC reflex ćhǝ̀w (note that Viet. thiu 'stale' is a colloquial reflex of the latter; the standard Sino-Viet. form is xú).
Radical: 132
Four-angle index: 4974
Karlgren code: 1088 a-b
Vietnamese reading: thiu
Jianchuan Bai: chu3
Dali Bai: chu3
Bijiang Bai: -ṭhü2
