池
Meanings
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- 1.pond
- 2.reservoir
- 3.moat
- 1.surname Chi
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Wiktionary
- 1.pool; pond
- 2.moat
- 3.cistern
- 4.pool
- 5.a surname
- 6.only used in 虖池／呼池 (“Hutuo River”)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *l'aːl, *l'al): semantic 氵 + phonetic 也 (OC *laːlʔ). Perhaps a Sino-Tibetan word; compare Proto-Kuki-Chin *lii (“pool; lake; pond”), whence Mizo li (“quiet, deep pool”) (STEDT).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
卸下電池。
Remove the battery.
我計算機的電池沒電了。
The batteries in my calculator are dead.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
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