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xún
  1. 1.(hairy sea-crab)

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.swimming crab
  2. 2.crab (general term) (Classifier: 隻/只 mn)

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic 虫 (“bug”) + phonetic 尋 (OC *ljum). Probably related to Vietnamese sam (“king crab”), which may be related to Proto-Mon-Khmer *kt₁aam, whence Khmer ក្ដាម (kdaam, “crab”), Mon ဂတာံ (“crab”) (Norman and Mei, 1976).

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