髓
Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) bone marrow; (fig.) innermost part
- 2.(botany) pith
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Wiktionary
- 1.bone marrow
- 2.pith; medulla
- 3.essence; substance
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Etymology
Schuessler (2007) minimally reconstructs 髓 (OC *soiʔ) further from uncertainly reconstructed ancestor *swaiʔ, which he deems possibly related to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *swiʔ (“blood”), some of whose reflexes mean "marrow": e.g. Jingpho lə səwi, Taraon [Term?] (ɹu⁵³ su⁵³), Drung [Term?] (mɯ³¹ sĭʔ⁵⁵), Limbu [script needed] (siː), Chang [Term?] (hʌ̀i). However, the Old Chinese pronunciation of 髓 is also reconstructed as *slolʔ (ZS) and *s-lojʔ (B-S) with medial *-l-, if so, it would be unrelated to *swiʔ.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
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Derived terms
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