侵
Meanings
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- 1.to invade
- 2.to encroach
- 3.to infringe
- 4.to approach
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Wiktionary
- 1.to gradually go in
- 2.to invade; to encroach
- 3.approaching
- 4.a surname
- 5.to add in (water or other fluid)
- 6.to allow (somebody) to join
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Etymology
According to Shuowen, an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 人 (“person”) + 帚 (“broom”) + 又 (“hand”) – a person with a broom in hand. Two Sino-Tibetan etymologies are possible: * Cognate with Tibetan སྟིམ་པ (stim pa, “to enter; to penetrate”), Tibetan ཐིམ་པ (thim pa, “to dissolve; to disappear; absorbed”), though the two terms agree just as well with 浸 (OC *ʔsims, *sʰim) (Schuessler, 2007), or * From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *syim (“sweep”) (STEDT); cognate with Anong śim (“to sweep”), Lhao Vo śam (“to sweep”), Burmese သိမ်း (sim:, “to gather in; to take possession of”). Note the graph 侵 shows a broom (帚) which may carry a semantic function (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
我們視健康為理所當然, 直到疾病侵襲。
We take health for granted until illness intervenes.
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Derived terms
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