害
Meanings
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- 1.to do harm to
- 2.to cause trouble to
- 3.harm
- 4.evil
- 5.calamity
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Wiktionary
- 1.to harm; to maim; to injure
- 2.to cause to do; to result in (something unfavourable)
- 3.to kill; to murder
- 4.to suffer from
- 5.to feel (an adverse sentiment)
- 6.harm; disaster; calamity
- 7.crucial point; vital point
- 8.harmful; injurious
- 9.broken
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Etymology
Multiple theories: * He Linyi (何琳儀): Ideogram (指事): a spear 𫲸 (now 𥎆) + a distinguishing mark 口. * Li Xueqin (2012): Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声). The phonetic component is 𡩜 (xiàn). * Guo Moruo (郭沫若), Dai Jiaxiang (戴家祥): Pictogram (象形), ancient form of 蓋 ("lid; cover"). * Gao Hongying (高鴻纓): Jiajie (假借), original character of 桷, borrowed for sound, which was a pictogram (象形) of a house's rafters (see 舍). * Chen Bingxin (陳秉新): Original form of 𠤳, written as ⿷𠥓⿴害五 in bronze inscriptions, which itself is an ancient way of writing the 胡 in 胡簋. * Shuowen Jiezi: Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡaːds): semantic 宀 + semantic 口 + phonetic 丯 (OC *kreːds). Cognate with 割 (OC *kaːd, “to cut”). See there for more.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我頭痛得厲害。
I have a terrible headache.
我頭疼得厲害。
I have a bad headache.
我牙痛得厲害。
I have a bad toothache.
他們會害慘你。
They'll kill you.
我不想傷害你。
I don't wish to harm you.
我頭痛得厲害。
I've got a terrible headache.
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Derived terms
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