灰
Meanings
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- 1.ash
- 2.dust
- 3.lime
- 4.gray
- 5.discouraged; dejected
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- 1.ash
- 2.dust
- 3.lime; mortar
- 4.gray
- 5.disheartened
- 6.(telegraphy) the tenth day of a month
- 7.powdered drug; heroin
- 8.a surname
- 9.to extinguish; to go out (of fire)
- 10.to be about to die
- 11.to be fully cured (of a disease); to disappear (of a scar)
- 12.used in 灰士
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 又 (“hand”) + 火 (“fire”) – fire that can be touched with the hand (ash). 又 has been modified to 𠂇; compare 友 (“friend”), 右 (“right”). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷut ~ hwut (“ashes, dust”) (STEDT; Schuessler (2007) reconstructs Proto-Sino-Tibetan *wu). Compare Mizo vutᴸ, Apatani mù-bu, Manipuri ꯎꯠ (ʼut), Northern Tujia bu³ ci².
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Components
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Example sentences
他会让你吃灰的。
He will make you eat dirt.
机器蒙上了一层灰。
The machine was coated with dust.
他對室內灰塵過敏。
He is allergic to house dust.
清理鏡子上的灰塵。
Clean the dirt off the mirror.
他的房間佈滿了灰塵。
His room was covered with dust.
她每天擦拭家具的灰塵。
She dusts the furniture every day.
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