雪茄
Meanings
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- 1.(loanword) cigar
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Wiktionary
- 1.cigar (Classifier: 支 m c; 根 m)
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Etymology
Borrowed from English cigar via a Southern variety of Chinese. Folk etymology commonly describes poet Xu Zhimo (1897–1931) as coining this translation in 1924, in a casual conversation with Rabindranath Tagore, on the grounds that the cigar is similar to lotus stem (茄) and the ash is similar to snow (雪). However, this term had already been used in 《出使英法義比四國日記續》, a late 19ᵗʰ century text, and Officialdom Unmasked, a 1903 Northern Wu novel.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Characters
Example sentences
湯姆點了雪茄。
Tom lit his cigar.
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Synonyms
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