戚
Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) relatives; kin
- 2.(bound form) grief; sorrow
- 3.(old) battle-axe
- 1.surname Qi
- 1.variant of 戚[qī]
- 2.grief
- 3.sorrow
- 1.variant of 戚[qī]
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Wiktionary
- 1.battle-axe
- 2.maternal relatives
- 3.relatives
- 4.to be related to
- 5.sadness; sorrow; grief
- 6.a surname
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sʰlɯːwɢ): semantic 戊 (“scythe”) + phonetic 尗 (OC *hljɯwɢ) – in early sense, a battle-axe, a kind of cutting weapon. Later borrowed to mean "relative".
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
窮人無親戚。
The poor man has no relatives.
一箇好朋友勝過十箇親戚。
One good friend is better than ten relatives.
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Derived terms
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