傀
Meanings
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- 1.grand
- 2.strange; exotic
- 1.used in 傀儡[kuǐ lěi]
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Wiktionary
- 1.great; tall; grand
- 2.odd; peculiar; extraordinary
- 3.only used in 傀儡 (kuǐlěi, “puppet”)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kuːl, *kʰuːlʔ): semantic 亻 (“human”) + phonetic 鬼 (OC *kulʔ). 傀 (OC *kuːl, *kʰuːlʔ) "extraordinary" (Zhouli) > 瑰 (OC *kuːl, *ɡuːl) "rare, marvelous" > a kind precious stone" (Shijing). 傀 (OC *kûi) seemingly had the same OC rhyme as 怪 (OC *kwrêh; *kwêh); they may be merely variants (Schuessler, 2007).
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