丸
HSK 7freq #6699
Meanings
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- 1.ball
- 2.pellet
- 3.pill
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Wiktionary
- 1.small round object; ball; pellet
- 2.pill; bolus
- 3.Classifier for pills of Chinese medicine.
- 4.egg (of a bird)
- 5.to roll into a ball
- 6.a surname, Wan
- 7.used in 烏丸／乌丸
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Etymology
Ideogram (指事), differentiated form of 夗 (OC *qonʔ), which was originally the same character. Shuowen suggests that it is an ideogram (指事) from flipped 仄 (“to tilt”) – something that can be tilted and turned; something round. Unrelated to the right component of characters like 執 and 孰, which comes from 丮 (a kneeling person with stretched arms to indicate "to hold").
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Components
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