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  1. 1.mow

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  1. 1.to mow; to cut; to weed
  2. 2.crops that have been cut
  3. 3.sickle
  4. 4.to kill; to chop; to lop
  5. 5.to eradicate; to eliminate
  6. 6.a surname
  7. 7.to cut; to cut off; to sever
  8. 8.to divide; to cut apart; to break up; to partition; to split
  9. 9.70th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "severance" (𝍋)
  10. 10.to cut in self-harm; short for 割腕 (gēwàn)
  11. 11.to give up; to abandon; to reject; to discard
  12. 12.to wholesale (of merchandise)
  13. 13.to allocate; to divide (property)
  14. 14.only used in 割包 (gēbāo)

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Etymology

Originally written as 乂. Now phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ŋads) and ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): phonetic 乂 (OC *ŋads, “to mow”) + semantic 刂 (“knife”). The phonetic component originally indicates a sickle, hence it also adds part of the meaning. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-ŋa-p (“to mow, cut, reap”) (STEDT, Schuessler, 2007). Cognate with Tibetan རྔ་བ (rnga ba), བརྔས (brngas), and colloquial Western Tibetan རྔབ་བ (rngab ba), which Coblin (1986) and STEDT treat as more conservative.

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