卒
䘚Meanings
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- 1.variant of 卒[zú]
- 1.variant of 猝[cù]
- 1.soldier
- 2.servant
- 3.to finish
- 4.to die
- 5.finally
- 6.at last
- 7.pawn in Chinese chess
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- 1.soldier
- 2.servant
- 3.pawn; private; soldier: 🩭 (on the black side)
- 4.to finish
- 5.to pass away; to die
- 6.at last; finally
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Etymology
There were 5 forms of 卒 in Shang oracle bone script (Qiu, 1990; Xuan, 2012): # : same as 衣 (“clothes”) (> Western Zhou bronze script ); # : a crisscross 衣 - a completed clothing; # (卒): ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 衣 (“clothes”) with a mark - a completed clothing to be folded (> Warring States bronze script ; Chu slip and silk script ); # (𧙻): phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): 衣 (“clothes”) + 聿 (OC *b·lud) (hand (又) holding a brush); # ,: 𧙻 having 又 omitted. The brush shape in form (5) was often placed upside down. Later the inverted brush shape was mistaken as 又 and then moved to the top as in Chu slip and silk script (𰠄) to avoid obscuration with 袁 (衣 + 又) (Xuan, 2012). From 遭 (OC *ʔsluː, “to meet”) + nominal suffix *-t (Schuessler, 2007).
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