沿
Meanings
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- 1.along
- 2.to follow (a line, tradition etc)
- 3.to carry on
- 4.to trim (a border with braid, tape etc)
- 5.border
- 6.edge
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Wiktionary
- 1.eaves of a house
- 2.brim; rim; edge
- 3.to follow a course
- 4.along (a certain route)
- 5.to follow (an old practice or tradition)
- 6.edge
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Etymology
The same word as 緣 (OC *lon, “to go along”). Cognate with 緣 (OC *lons, “hem; border on garment”), which is the exopassive of 沿 (OC *lon, literally “what is followed/follows”) (Schuessler, 2007). Possibly related to Proto-Tai, compare Thai เลียน (liian, “to mimic”), or from Sino-Tibetan; compare Mizo zeelᴸ (“to walk along, a road along a hillside”) and Jingpho mə³¹-jan³³ (“flow along a cliff”) (Schuessler, 2007); nevertheless, Schuessler finds Middle Chinese descendant's rounded element difficult to reconcile phonologically with these items and proposes also a derivation from 由 (OC *lɯw).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我們沿著河散步。
We took a walk along the river.
這條小路沿著陡峭的斜坡蜿蜒而上。
The path zigzagged up the steep slope.
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Derived terms
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