尾
Meanings
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- 1.tail
- 2.remainder
- 3.remnant
- 4.extremity
- 5.sixth of the 28 constellations
- 6.classifier for fish
- 1.horse's tail
- 2.pointed posterior section of a locust etc
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Wiktionary
- 1.tail (Classifier: 條／条 c; 支 mn)
- 2.end
- 3.last; final
- 4.Classifier for fish, snakes, shrimps, etc. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
- 5.(Chinese astronomy) Tail (one of Twenty-Eight Mansions)
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 尸 (“person”) + 毛 (“hair; feather”). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lməj (“tail; penis”) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo mei (“tail”), Tibetan རྨེད (rmed, “tail; crupper of saddle”), Chepang मेः (meʔ, “tail”), Burmese အမြီး (a.mri:, “tail”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
湯姆綁著馬尾。
Tom has a ponytail.
他為無尾熊拍照。
He took a picture of the koala.
湯姆解開了馬尾。
Tom untied his ponytail.
寧為貓頭不為獅尾。
Better be the head of a cat than the tail of a lion.
湯姆猛拉瑪麗的馬尾。
Tom yanked Mary's ponytail.
湯姆和瑪莉都綁著馬尾。
Tom and Mary both have ponytails.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
尾巴 tail结尾 ending尾声 coda尾气 exhaust; emissions追尾 to tailgate尾鳍 tail or caudal fin韵尾 (phonology) coda, the part of a syllable that follows its vocalic nucleus (e.g. "u" in kòu or "n" in běn)年尾 end of the year尾音 final sound of a syllable尾期 final period松尾 Matsuo (Japanese surname and place name)尾欠 balance due