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Translingual edit
Han character edit
兀 (Kangxi radical 10, 儿+1, 3 strokes, cangjie input 一山 (MU), four-corner 10210, composition ⿱一儿)
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- Kangxi Dictionary: page 123, character 2
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1337
- Dae Jaweon: page 257, character 22
- Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 264, character 5
- Unihan data for U+5140
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| alternative forms | 㐳 | |
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References:
Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
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Etymology 1 edit
- “to cut off the feet”
- Perhaps Austroasiatic; compare Mon ကုတ် (kut, “to cut off; to amputate”) (Schuessler, 2007).
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兀
- † towering
- 突兀 ― tūwù ― lofty
- † bald
- † to cut off the feet
- 兀者 [Classical Chinese] ― wùzhě [Pinyin] ― person that has had one of their feet cut
- † unpeaceful
- a surname
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Etymology 3 edit
Borrowed from Turkic, ultimately from Proto-Turkic *ol (Zhang and Zhang, 2007). Compare Old Turkic 𐰆𐰞 (ul¹), Turkish o (“he, she, it; that”), Uyghur ئۇ (u, “he, she, it; that”), Chuvash вӑл (văl, “he, she, it”) and Karakhanid اُلْ (ol, “he, she, it; that”). First recorded in the Song Dynasty:
- 前世謂「阿睹」，猶今諺云「兀底」；「寧馨」，猶「恁地」也；皆不指一物一事之詞。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: Song Dynasty, 莊綽, 《雞肋編》
- Qiánshì wèi “ādǔ”, yóu jīn yàn yún “wùde”; “níngxīn”, yóu “nèndì” yě; jiē bù zhǐ yī wù yī shì zhī cí. [Pinyin]
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前世谓“阿睹”，犹今谚云“兀底”；“宁馨”，犹“恁地”也；皆不指一物一事之词。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
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兀
- (dialectal Mandarin, Jin) that [from 11th c.]
- (archaic) Used before pronouns to form bisyllabic pronouns.
- 兀那 [Written Vernacular Chinese] ― wùnà [Pinyin] ― that
- 兀誰／兀谁 [Written Vernacular Chinese] ― wùshéi [Pinyin] ― who
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Etymology 4 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
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Etymology 6 edit
| For pronunciation and definitions of 兀 – see 尢 (“lame; crippled”). (This character, 兀, is a variant form of 尢.) |
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Hanja edit
兀 (eum 올 (ol))
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兀: Hán Nôm readings: ngột, ngát, ngút
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