Skip to content
Inkstone
Sign in

月氏

Yuè zhī

Meanings

CC-CEDICT

Yuè zhī
  1. 1.ancient people of central Asia during the Han dynasty

CC-CEDICT · CC BY-SA

Wiktionary

  1. 1.Yuezhi (ancient people in western China)

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Etymology

Aydemir (2019) reconstructs underlying ethnonym *Arki ~ *Yarki, which he proposes to be etymologically Indo-European and also underlies Mandarin 月支 (Yuèzhī, literally “Moon Branch”) and various other transcriptions (Chinese and non-Chinese) and Tocharian A arśi.

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Stroke order

Components

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Characters

More examples & usage (AI)

Derived terms

Wiktionary · CC BY-SA

Related words