儒
Meanings
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- 1.scholar
- 2.Confucian
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Wiktionary
- 1.Confucianism; Ruism
- 2.scholar; learned person
- 3.Confucian; Ruist
- 4.weak; cowardly
- 5.a surname
- 6.pretty, refined, exquisite
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *njo): semantic 亻 (“human”) + phonetic 需 (OC *sno). Origin obscure. Chen (2013) – following Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi, etc. – links 儒 (OC *njo, “sorcerers, intellectuals, government officials, Confucians”) to 柔 (OC *mlju, “soft”) and 懦 (OC *noːls, *njo, “weak, timid”), "probably derived from the nature of the profession, registered by softness, suppleness, and flexibility".
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