倭
Meanings
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- 1.dwarf
- 2.Japanese (derog.) (old)
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Wiktionary
- 1.Japan; Yamato
- 2.dwarf; pygmy
- 3.compliant; docile; gentle
- 4.used in 倭遲／倭迟: winding; meandering; circuitous; by extension, far and long
- 5.used in 倭妥: graceful; neat and well-arranged; fine; pretty; also (Wu Chinese) mild; tactful; compliant
- 6.used in 倭傀: an ugly woman (in classical texts)
- 7.only used in 倭墮髻／倭堕髻 (wǒduòjì): a women's hairstyle with the bun slanting to one side or falling forward over the forehead; also shortened to 倭墮
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, *ʔoj; qʳolʔ): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 委 (*ʔwaj; qʳolʔ; qrojʔ; qrorʔ). Various theories suggest that 倭 was influenced by Old Japanese 我 (wa, “I, me”), the shorter height of the ancient Japanese, referring to the practice of bowing, or the obsolete sense of the word that meant winding possibly used to refer to the distance between Japan and China (Etymology 2).
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