秧
Meanings
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- 1.sapling; seedling; sprout; (esp.) rice seedling
- 2.stem; stalk; vine
- 3.baby livestock; fry
- 4.(dialect) to raise; to cultivate (plants or animals)
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Wiktionary
- 1.rice seedling
- 2.sprout; shoot; seedling
- 3.vine; stalk
- 4.young animal; -ling
- 5.to transplant rice seedlings
- 6.to grow; to cultivate; to raise
- 7.a surname
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *qaŋ, *qaŋʔ): semantic 禾 (“grain; cereal”) + phonetic 央 (OC *qaŋ). Attested relatively late, in the Tang dynasty (Sagart, 2011). Haudricourt and Strecker (1991) propose a Hmong-Mien origin, but Sagart (2011) argues that the direction of borrowing should be the other way around. He instead proposes an internal Chinese origin, suggesting that it is a cognate of 英 (OC *qraŋ, “grasses at their growing/flowering stage, before producing seeds”) without a -r- infix. Relationship with Tibeto-Burman items is unclear, due to mismatching initials: Tibetan ལྗང་བ (ljang ba, “shoot, sprout”), ལྗང་བུ (ljang bu, “rice seedling”), Lepcha ᰊᰜᰤᰨᰵ (ta-lyong, “young blades of corn, rice”) (Schuessler, 2007).
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