吾
Meanings
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- 1.(old) I; my
- 1.surname Wu
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Wiktionary
- 1.I
- 2.my
- 3.a surname, Wu
- 4.Used for onomatopoeia.
- 5.Used in transcription.
- 6.a kind of baton
- 7.only used in 允吾 (Yányá; Qiānyá) A county established during the Western Han, disestablished during the Northern Wei, and briefly reestablished during the Sui dynasty
- 8.used in 吾吾
- 9.used in 吾丘
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ŋraː, *ŋaː): phonetic 五 (OC *ŋaːʔ) + semantic 口 (“mouth”). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa (“I”). Cognate with Burmese ငါ (nga, “I”), 我 (OC *ŋaːlʔ, “I”), Hakka 𠊎 (ngài, “I”).
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Related words
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