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Meanings
CC-CEDICT
- 1.to confer on
- 2.to give to
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Wiktionary
- 1.to give
- 2.to use
- 3.to add
- 4.to pay
- 5.to pay with
- 6.to allow; to let
- 7.for
- 8.to
- 9.by
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Etymology
In the oracle bone script, it was a pictogram (象形) of an arrow with a flat arrowhead (cf. 矢, an arrow) – original character of 錍 (OC *pʰeː, *pe, “arrow with a flat arrowhead”). In the bronze script, a dot was added to the centre, which later became a short line. The bottom of the glyph eventually corrupted into 廾 or 丌. On the basis of the latter shape, Shuowen erroneously interprets the character as a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *pids): phonetic 甶 (OC *pɯd) + semantic 丌 (“pedestal”). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *Pi(k) (“to give”). Other cognates within the same Sinitic word family include 賓／宾 (bīn, “guest”), 嬪／嫔 (pín, “court lady, palace maid”), 殯／殡 (bìn, “laying a coffin”); outside of Sinitic, cognate with Tibetan སྦྱིན (sbyin, “to give, to bestow”), Burmese ပေး (pe:, “to give”) (STEDT).
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