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yīng

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yīng
  1. 1.infant
  2. 2.baby

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.parrot; parakeet

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qreːŋ): phonetic 嬰 (OC *qeŋ) + semantic 鳥 (“bird”). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ɣrēŋ (“a kind of parrot”); cognate with Jingpho u hkring (“small parrot”) (Peiros & Starostin, 1996).

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