奴
Meanings
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- 1.slave
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Wiktionary
- 1.slave; servant
- 2.I
- 3.a person associated with a particular identity or trait
- 4.to enslave
- 5.Used in transcription.
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 女 (“woman”) + 又 (“hand”) – a hand capturing and ordering a woman around. 女 (OC *naʔ, *nas) may also be phonetic. Some oracle bone script forms (not depicted above) are pictographic (象形), showing a person (probably a woman) with hands crossed at the back, as opposed to 女 which depicts a woman clasping her hands in front of the body. Uncertain. *Possibly cognate with Mru nar (“servant”) & Awa-Khumi Chin tana (Löffler, 1960); *Ferlus (1999) relates this to 女 (OC *naʔ), which has semantic parallel, especially among foreign loans (e.g. 嬯 (OC *dɯː, “servant, slave woman”) which is possibly from Austroasiatic). * Unger (1990) groups 奴 (OC *naː) as well as 努 (OC *naːʔ, “to tense, to exert”), 弩 (OC *naːʔ, “crossbow”), & 怒 (OC *naːs, “angry”), in a word-family with the basic meaning "tense", hence 奴 (OC *naː)'s meaning "press into service".
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Components
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Example sentences
我是個奴隸。
I'm a slave.
林肯釋放了奴隸。
Lincoln set the slaves free.
美國廢除了奴隸制度。
America did away with slavery.
他對待我就像他的奴隸。
He treats me like his slave.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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