兆
Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) omen
- 2.to foretell
- 3.million; mega-
- 4.(Tw) trillion; tera-
- 5.(old) billion
- 1.surname Zhao
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Wiktionary
- 1.cracks formed on heated tortoise plastrons and mammal bones used in ancient divination
- 2.omen
- 3.to portend; to augur
- 4.graveyard, cemetery, necropolis
- 5.trillion (million million), tera-, 10¹²
- 6.(SI prefix) million, mega-, 10⁶
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形): 人 (“person”) + 水 (“water”) + 人 (“person”) – two people fleeing with their backs to a flood (Yu Xingwu, 1999). Some oracle bone script variants are written identically to 化 (one upright person and one upside-down person). Meng (2022) suggests that this variant uses 化 as a phonetic component due to their phonological connection in Old Chinese. Shuowen, without access to oracle bone script, considered it a pictogram (象形) of cracks formed on a heated tortoise shell or bone during divination. Compare Chepang ह्रावःसा (hrawʔ‑, “to forebode; to portend ill fortune”).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
你認爲這是箇預兆嗎？
Do you think it's a sign?
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Derived terms
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