Chinese characters : Query result

Character: 逗

Modern (Beijing) reading: dòu

Preclassic Old Chinese: d(h)ōs

Classic Old Chinese: d(h)ōh

Western Han Chinese: d(h)wāh

Eastern Han Chinese: d(h)wāh

Early Postclassic Chinese: d(h)ṑw

Middle Postclassic Chinese: d(h)ǝ̄̀w

Late Postclassic Chinese: d(h)ǝ̄̀w

Middle Chinese: dʌ̀w

English meaning : to stop, linger [Han]

Russian meaning[s]: 1) останавливаться; задерживаться; откладывать; медлить, оставаться; ждать; 2) идти окольным путем; увиливать, избегать; 3) завлекать, соблазнять; возбуждать; 4) фраза, вм. 讀

Comments: A probable loan from the same source is Viet. d_ỗ 'to stop; to perch, alight'.

Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology

Radical: 162

Four-angle index: 6454

Vietnamese reading: d_ậu

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