玉
HSK 4freq #5296
Meanings
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- 1.jade
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Wiktionary
- 1.jade (originally nephrite, now also including jadeite)
- 2.pure; beautiful
- 3.your
- 4.used in 玉冰燒
- 5.a surname, Yu
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Etymology
The character's shape was historically very similar to 王; a dot was introduced to differentiate the two. Pictogram (象形): a picture of a cong (琮), a sort of ritual jade totem. It is also interpreted as three pieces of jade strung together on a string. It is also used as a simplification of 或. STEDT compares it to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-lu(ŋ/k) (“stone”), which is also compared to 琭 (OC *roːɡ, “a kind of precious stone”) and 碭 (OC *l'aːŋ, *l'aːŋs, “brilliant veined stone”).
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