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擔Meanings
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- 1.to undertake
- 2.to carry
- 3.to shoulder
- 4.to take responsibility
- 1.picul (100 catties, 50 kg)
- 2.two buckets full
- 3.carrying pole and its load
- 4.classifier for loads carried on a shoulder pole
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- 1.now
- 2.then; in that case
- 3.nowadays
- 4.to dust
- 5.to make contact with
- 6.to carry on a shoulder pole
- 7.to bear; to shoulder; to undertake
- 8.to hold in one's mouth
- 9.carrying pole with loads on both ends
- 10.burden; load; responsibilities
- 11.picul, a traditional Chinese unit of weight equal to 100 catties
- 12.picul; equal to 50 kilograms
- 13.picul; equal to 60.478982 kilograms
- 14.Classifier for things carried on a shoulder pole: load
- 15.Classifier for areas.
- 16.coarse mat made of bamboo
- 17.a surname
- 18.to hit; to beat
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *taːm, *taːms): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 詹 (OC *tjam) – to carry by hand. According to STEDT, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tam (“to carry on shoulder”), whence Burmese ထမ်း (htam:, “to carry on the shoulder”). Schuessler (2007), on the other hand, notes 擔 (OC *taːm) is an area word whose source is probably Austroasiatic; compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *klam ~ *kləm (“to carry on shoulder”), whence Khmu klam (“to carry on shoulder”). An alternative form with initial *t which agrees with later Old Chinese is widespread; compare also Khmer ទាំ (tŏəm, “to tire of; to bear”), Khmer ទ្រាំ (trŏəm, “to bear; to endure”), Proto-Hmong-Mien *ntam (“to carry on shoulder”), whence Iu Mien daːm¹, and Proto-Tai *trwaːmᴬ (“to carry on the back”), whence Thai หาม (hǎam, “to carry”). The softened initial in Northern Min points to OC pre-nasalization which is supported by Iu Mien daːm¹ (Schuessler, 2007), an early Chinese loan into Hmong-Mien (Baxter and Sagart, 2014). 擔 (OC *taːms) is 擔 (OC *taːm) with the passive s/h-suffix, literally "what is carried".
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