脷
Meanings
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- 1.(cattle) tongue (Cantonese)
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Wiktionary
- 1.tongue (human or animal) (Classifier: 條／条 c)
- 2.tongue of an animal
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic ⺼ (“meat”) + phonetic 利. Specialization of 利 (“benefit; profit”). From 利 (“benefit; profit”), used as a euphemism for 舌 (“tongue”), which is homophonous to 折, 蝕 /蚀 (“to be at a loss”). Alternatively, it may be from 舐 (OC *ɦljeʔ, “to lick”), preserving the Old Chinese initial *l- (Schuessler, 2007).
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Components
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