丑
醜Meanings
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- 1.shameful
- 2.ugly
- 3.disgraceful
- 1.surname Chou
- 1.clown
- 2.2nd earthly branch: 1-3 a.m., 12th solar month (6th January to 3rd February), year of the Ox
- 3.ancient Chinese compass point: 30°
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- 1.second of twelve earthly branches (地支)
- 2.ox (牛)
- 3.a surname
- 4.clown; comedian
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – a hand with emphasizing claws or fingernails. Phonetically borrowed to represent an earthly branch. It also started meaning "ugly" as a simplified form of an unrelated character with same pronunciation, 醜. Smith (2010) proposes that 丑 graphically depicts the claw-like "final, narrow phase of the moon"; he glosses it as "thing that pinches > pincer" and groups it into a word-family which is based on 扭 (OC *nuʔ, *tnuʔ, “twist, pinch”) and also includes * 手 (OC *hnjɯwʔ, “hand”); * 杻 (OC *nuʔ, *n̥ʰuʔ) ~ 杽 (OC *n̥ʰɯwʔ, “manacle”), which equally uses 丑 (OC *n̥ʰuʔ) or 手 (OC *hnjɯwʔ) as phonophoric, as noted by Unger (1995) and Sagart (1999); * 紐 (OC *nuʔ) ~ 鈕 (OC *nuʔ, “grip handle”), with which Shuowen glosses 丑 (OC *n̥ʰuʔ); * 狃 (OC *nuʔ, *nus, “animal tracks”), suggested to mean "animals' fingers" by Sagart (1999). Its association with the ox is from Austroasiatic (Mei, 1980; Norman, 1985; Ferlus, 2013); compare Proto-Vietic *c-luː (“water buffalo”), Proto-Mon-Khmer *krpiʔ ~ *krpiiw ~ *krpuʔ ~ *(kr)puh (“buffalo”), Proto-Austroasiatic *k.r.pu.y (“buffalo”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
一个丑男人敲了我的门。
An ugly man knocked on my door.
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Derived terms
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