鼻
Meanings
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- 1.nose
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Wiktionary
- 1.nose (Classifier: 個／个 c; 支 mn)
- 2.nose-like object, protruding part
- 3.handle
- 4.pinhole
- 5.cape
- 6.initial; founding; beginning; original
- 7.nasal mucus; snot
- 8.to smell
- 9.to kiss
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *blids): semantic 自 (“nose”) + phonetic 畀 (OC *pids). 自 originally referred to this word, but came to be used to refer to 自 (OC *ɦljids, “self”) instead, so the sense of “nose” has been replaced by this character. Some scholars interpret 鼻 as a combination of a nose (自) and two lungs (畀), however 畀 on oracle bones represents an arrow. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bi (“nose”); compare Nuosu ꅳꁖ (hnap bbit, “nose; snot”). Alternatively, it may be from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-brit (“sneeze; nose; swallow”), whence Tibetan སྦྲིད (sbrid, “sneeze”), but there is no trace of r in Chinese (Schuessler, 2007). In some modern lects, including Mandarin, Gan, Jin, Wu, and Xiang, and even in the literary layer of some Min dialects, the word reflects a form with final *-t. For example, in standard Mandarin, the word is pronounced bí (implying an old entering tone) instead of bì (the expected reflex from the departing tone in Middle Chinese). This is due to a phonological phenomenon in the northwest, either an early loss of *-s in the *-ts cluster before regular final cluster simplification occurred (Baxter, 1992), or a dialectal change from *-s to *-t (Pulleybank, 1998).
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