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zhī
HSK 7freq #3498

Meanings

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zhī
  1. 1.juice

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.juice (of fruits, vegetables, etc.)
  2. 2.gravy; sauce
  3. 3.dirty and sticky (often reduplicated)
  4. 4.very dirty to the point of oozing juice (of clothes)
  5. 5.unpleasant and pestering people (of someone)
  6. 6.source of posted material
  7. 7.only used in 汁方 (Shífāng)

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Etymology

Unclear. Schuessler (2007) lists several proposals: * related to Tibetan ཆབ (chab, “water”) (Coblin, 1986)), yet initial velars do not palatize in Written Tibetan; * related to Jingpho [script needed] (məgyep, “liquor”); * related to Burmese ချိပ် (hkyip, “lac”), Proto-Loloish *C-gripᴸ (“lac; pine”) (Peiros & Starostin, 1996, STEDT), if so from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kryap (“bug, ant, cochineal, lac insect”) (whence also 蠟 (OC *raːb) "wax"); Likely related to 湆 (OC *kʰrɯb) & 協 (OC *ɦleːb) (汁 (OC *kjub)'s dialectal synonym attested east of Tong Pass); yet not to 瀋 (OC *l̥ʰjɯmʔ) (Schuessler, 2007). ; Hong Kong Cantonese "source"

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