乸
Meanings
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- 1.feminine suffix (Cantonese)
- 2.postfix indicating feminine
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Wiktionary
- 1.female animal (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
- 2.mother
- 3.wife (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
- 4.sissy; feminine; unmanly
- 5.female
- 6.Suffix for certain animals, without any gendered meaning.
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Etymology
Probably a dialectal form of 女 (OC *naʔ, “woman; female”) (Schuessler, 2007). Alternatively, Li (1990) proposed that this may be a Tai substrate loan, related to Zhuang nax (“younger maternal uncle or aunt”), Thai น้า (náa) (which go back to Proto-Tai *naːꟲ (“mother's younger sibling”)).
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