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cān
HSK 6freq #2848

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cān
  1. 1.meal
  2. 2.to eat
  3. 3.classifier for meals

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  1. 1.to eat
  2. 2.meal
  3. 3.cuisine; (type of) food
  4. 4.Classifier for meals.
  5. 5.Classifier for beatings, scoldings, etc.

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sʰaːn): phonetic 𣦼 (cán) + semantic 食 (“to eat; meal; food”). Its original meaning was "to swallow". From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-dz(j)a-k/n/t/s (“to eat; food; to feed; rice”), whence Tibetan ཟ (za, “to eat”); probably also related to 咀 (OC *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ, “to chew”) (STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007). Alternatively, it may be compared to Tibetan འཚལ ('tshal, “to eat”), ཚལ་མ (tshal ma, “breakfast”) (Coblin, 1986; Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2019).

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𣦼

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