枕
Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) pillow
- 2.to rest one's head on (Taiwan pr. [zhèn])
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Wiktionary
- 1.pillow
- 2.occipital bone
- 3.to pillow; to lay one's head on
- 4.to approach
- 5.to lean on
- 6.a surname
- 7.Lindera umbellata
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *l'um, *ʔljumʔ, *ʔljums): semantic 木 + phonetic 冘 (OC *lu, *lum). Perhaps from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-kum (“pillow, block, bench, bedstead”), and cognate with Burmese ခုံ (hkum, “raised block”), Japhug tɤmkɯm (“pillow”) (STEDT). Zhang, Jacques, and Lai (2019) suggest that the t- preinitial in Baxter and Sagart's (2014) Old Chinese may be related to the Gyalrong indefinite possessive prefix, such as Japhug tɤ-, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tV-. STEDT also suggests 椹 (OC *ʔl'um, “chopping block”) as a comparandum, but it seems to be difficult to reconcile.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我還需要一個枕頭。
I need another pillow.
給我一個枕頭和毛毯好嗎？
Could I have a pillow and blanket?
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Derived terms
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