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chū
  1. 1.variant of 出[chū] (classifier for plays or chapters of classical novels)
chū
  1. 1.to go out; to come out
  2. 2.to arise; to occur
  3. 3.to produce; to yield
  4. 4.to go beyond; to exceed
  5. 5.(used after a verb to indicate an outward direction or a positive result)
  6. 6.classifier for dramas, plays, operas etc

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  1. 1.to go out; to leave; to exit
  2. 2.to appear
  3. 3.to come; to arrive
  4. 4.to go (to a certain place)
  5. 5.out; outside
  6. 6.to send out; to put forth
  7. 7.to exceed
  8. 8.to produce; to turn out
  9. 9.to happen; to arise
  10. 10.to vent; to put forth
  11. 11.to publish; to be released (e.g. a product, film, cosplay dress-up, or announcement)
  12. 12.to expend
  13. 13.to buy (an electronic device, such as a mobile phone or computer)
  14. 14.Particle placed after verbs to indicate an outward movement.
  15. 15.Particle placed after verbs to indicate a completed action. to determine
  16. 16.to state a price
  17. 17.to seem to give a large amount
  18. 18.to be willing to part with money (by spending, paying, etc.)
  19. 19.to escape one's bad luck
  20. 20.ever since

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Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 止 (“foot”) + 凵 (“cave”) – to step out of a cave; to exit. Compare 各. By the Qin dynasty, the character has lost its original shape. Based on the distorted form, Shuowen mistakenly interprets the character as a pictogram of a plant (屮) growing outwards. STEDT derives this word as a cognate of Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-twak (“to come or go out; to emerge”); compare Burmese ထွက် (htwak, “to go or come out; to produce or yield; to leave”), Proto-Lolo-Burmese *ʔ-twakᴴ (“to come or got out; to emerge”), Proto-Kuki-Chin *tshuak-I, *tshuaʔ-II (“to come out; to emerge; to appear”). But virtually all Old Chinese reconstructions of this word nowadays are completely phonetically incompatible with this etymon; this comparison should be rejected. Alternatively, Sagart (1999) and Baxter and Sagart (2014) suggest that this word is related to other words that express extraction, such as 掘 (OC *[ɡ]ut, “to dig out”), and reconstruct the Old Chinese with an intransitivizing prefix *t-.

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