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CC-CEDICT

  1. 1.to raise (animals)
chù
  1. 1.livestock
  2. 2.domesticated animal
  3. 3.domestic animal

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to nourish; to raise; to rear
  2. 2.to bring up; to nurture; to foster; to cultivate
  3. 3.to submit; to obey; to comply
  4. 4.to tolerate; to allow
  5. 5.to keep; to house; to collect
  6. 6.to irritate one's respiratory organs
  7. 7.a surname
  8. 8.livestock; domesticated animal; farm animal
  9. 9.creature; beast

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Etymology

Pictogram (象形): 玄 (“rope tying the bag of feed”) + 田 (“bag of feed”) – a bag of feed, hence livestock. Alternatively, 玄 (“rope”) + 田 or 囿 (“pen; fold; enclosure”) – tying animals and raising them in the enclosure. “To raise; to rear (an animal)” (*–k) > “domesticated animal; livestock” (*–k–s, exopassive: “what has been raised”). The various pronunciations in Old and Middle Chinese have been confused or merged in many extant dialects. Etymology unknown. Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hu (“to be born; birth; to rear”), and thus may be related to 好 (OC *qʰuːʔ, *qʰuːs, “good; to like”) (Matisoff). Alternatively, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kruŋ (“to live; alive; to be born; to give birth; green; sprout”), whence Tibetan འཁྲུང ('khrung, “to be born; to arise; to sprout”) (Schuessler, 2007). Zhengzhang (2015) relates Tibetan ལུག (lug, “sheep”) to this word; this would be parallel to 羊 (OC *laŋ, “sheep”) ?~ 養 (OC *laŋʔ, *laŋs, “to rear”) (Sagart, 1999). In Sagart (1999), 畜 is related to 育 (OC *luɡ, “to nourish”) and 鞠 (OC *kuɡ, *kʰuɡ, *ɡuɡ, “to rear”).

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