席
Meanings
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- 1.surname Xi
- 1.woven mat (variant of 席[xí])
- 1.woven mat
- 2.seat
- 3.banquet
- 4.place in a democratic assembly
- 5.classifier for banquets, conversations etc
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Wiktionary
- 1.woven mat
- 2.seat (something to sit on)
- 3.rank; place
- 4.food of a banquet
- 5.Classifier for conversations.
- 6.Classifier for seats (members) in a meeting.
- 7.a surname, Xi
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形): a woven mat with ornament. Later, a phonetic 石 (OC *djaɡ) was added and the image of the mat corrupted into 巾 (“cloth”). In the small seal script, 石 had corrupted into , leading Shuowen to interpret it as abbreviated phonetic 庶 (OC *hljaɡs) + semantic 巾. In the variant 𠩛, the mat is better preserved and 石 has corrupted into 厂 instead. Compare 度 (OC *daːɡs, *daːɡ) and 庶 (OC *hljaɡs). Etymology unclear. Various theories have been proposed: * Wang (1982) relates this to 藉 (OC *zjaːɡs, *zjaːɡ), 蒩 (OC *ʔsaː, *ʔsaːʔ, *sʰa), 薦 (OC *ʔseːns). * Schuessler (2007), reconstructing this word minimally as *s-lak, relates this word to 莽 (OC *mlaʔ, *mlaŋʔ, “grass”). * Baxter and Sagart (2014) derive it from a root *tak (“to place”), with circumstantial noun prefix *s-, literally “place for putting things”.
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Components
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Example sentences
冷空氣疾風席捲整棟房子。
A blast of cold air swept through the house.
海嘯席捲稻田, 淹沒了城鎮。
Tsunamis swept through rice fields and flooded the towns.
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