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cuō HSK7

polish

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Phonosemantic compound. 石 represents the meaning and 差 represents the sound.

Components

石
石 Meaning component
shí stone
差
差 Sound component
chà, chā, chāi to differ

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttsha[tsʰ]ˤajfile, polish (v.)
Zhengzhangsʰlaːl
Unicodetsɑ

Sources

Readings & variants
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Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang