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CC-CEDICT

  1. 1.(classical) barely
  2. 2.just
  3. 3.just now

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.A term of address for a man, usually as a suffix placed after a man's courtesy name.
  2. 2.courtesy name of a man
  3. 3.a surname
  4. 4.to begin
  5. 5.just; just now
  6. 6.great
  7. 7.Used in place names.
  8. 8.to fuck; to have sexual intercourse with

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Etymology

In oracle bone script, ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 屮 (“vegetation”) + 田 (“field”) – garden, original form of 圃. In bronze inscriptions, the components 屮 and 田 corrupted into 父 and 用 respectively. 父 (OC *paʔ, *baʔ) became a sound component, making the character phono-semantic (形聲 /形声, OC *paʔ). In the modern form the components have merged into a single shape. Probably cognate with 父 (OC *paʔ, “father”) (Schuessler, 2007).

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