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gǔ

cow

Components

牛 Meaning component

niú cow

ox

古 Sound component

gǔ old

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	kuX	Cə.kʷˤaʔ	male (bovine)
Zhengzhang		kaːʔ

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang