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ǒu

Meanings

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ǒu
  1. 1.accidental
  2. 2.image
  3. 3.pair
  4. 4.mate

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.figure; statue; idol
  2. 2.couple; pair
  3. 3.even
  4. 4.accidentally, coincidentally, by accident, by chance, occasionally
  5. 5.to stand side by side
  6. 6.Classifier for pairs of horseshoe crabs.

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs): semantic 亻 (“person”) + phonetic 禺 (OC *ŋo, *ŋos) – a statue of a person, an idol. Cognate with 遇 (OC *ŋos, “to meet; to encounter”) (Schuessler, 2007).

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