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Where does “ᦉᦲᧇᦷᦠᧅ” come from?

ᦉᦲᧇᦷᦠᧅ (Lü) comes from Lü ᦷᦠᧅ, from Proto-Southwestern Tai *xrokᴰ¹ˢ, from Proto-Tai krokᴰ, from Old Chinese 六.

ᦉᦲᧇᦷᦠᧅ (Lü): sixteen

Definitions

  1. sixteen

Ancestry of “ᦉᦲᧇᦷᦠᧅ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Lüᦷᦠᧅsix
2Proto-Southwestern Tai*xrokᴰ¹ˢ—
3Proto-Taikrokᴰsix
4Old Chinese六—
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