孔
Meanings
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- 1.surname Kong
- 1.hole
- 2.CL:个[gè]
- 3.classifier for cave dwellings
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Wiktionary
- 1.hole; aperture; opening
- 2.classifier for cave dwellings, oil wells, etc..
- 3.ditch; trench; canal; channel
- 4.profound; far-reaching
- 5.unimpeded; unblocked
- 6.large
- 7.fine
- 8.very; extremely
- 9.peacock; peafowl
- 10.a surname
- 11.classifier for partitioned grid units in a tool.
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Etymology
Bronze inscriptions: Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 丿 (“opening”) + 子 (“child”) – opening in the skull of a newborn, i.e. fontanelle. ; "hole": From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(g/k)uŋ (“hole; orifice; inner part”). 孔 (OC *kʰloːŋʔ, “hole”) is probably the endoactive derivation of 空 (OC *kʰoːŋ, “hollow; empty”) (Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Tibetan ཁུང (khung, “hole”), Jingpho ladi hku (lədî hkū, “nostril”), Chepang घाङ् (gʰaŋ, “hole”), Burmese အခေါင်း (a.hkaung:, “hollow place; cavity”), Naxi kho³³ (“cave; hole; pit”) (STEDT). ; "peacock": Starostin reconstructs 孔 (OC *khōŋ) and compares it to Proto-Vietic *k-voːŋ. Compare also Semai kuwok, Semnam kwɔːŋ.
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Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
人孔是圓的，因為這樣人孔蓋就不會意外地掉進洞裡。
Manholes are round because that way they won't accidentally fall through the hole.
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