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Meanings

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  1. 1.thorn
  2. 2.sting
  3. 3.thrust
  4. 4.to prick
  5. 5.to pierce
  6. 6.to stab
  7. 7.to assassinate
  8. 8.to murder
  1. 1.(onom.) whoosh

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.a pointed structure which is able to pierce something (spike, spine, thorn, prickle, etc.)
  2. 2.visiting card
  3. 3.to stab; to prick
  4. 4.to kill discreetly; to assassinate discreetly
  5. 5.to criticize with pointed words
  6. 6.to pry into; to investigate
  7. 7.to stimulate
  8. 8.to provoke; to irritate (through light, sound, heat, etc.)
  9. 9.to thrust; to attack the opponent at an area parallel to the weapon's length
  10. 10.thrust
  11. 11.a surname, Ci
  12. 12.to sew; to weave; to knit; to embroider
  13. 13.to tattoo
  14. 14.dazzling; glaring
  15. 15.to pick out; to pluck out
  16. 16.to expose; to bring to light
  17. 17.prickly and uncomfortable (as if being pricked by needles)
  18. 18.to remind someone during a fight of the number of times one has given favors to that person
  19. 19.sound of rubbing
  20. 20.only used in 刺促 (qìcù)

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sʰeɡs, *sʰeɡ): phonetic 朿 (OC *sʰeɡs) + semantic 刂 (“knife”). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-tshyar ~ *g-zyar (“thorn, nail, tack”) (provisional) (STEDT); cognate with Tibetan ཚེར་མ (tsher ma, “thorn, thorn bush”), གཟེར་བ (gzer ba, “to bore into”), and གཟེར (gzer, “nail”) (Schuessler, 2007). 刺 (OC *tsekh) "attack, satirize" (Zuozhuan) < "criticize" (Shijing) < lit. "cause to be stabbed" is exopassive/exoactive derivation of 刺 (OC *tsek) "pierce, stab" (ibid.); 朿 (OC tsʰie^C) "thorn" (SW) is Han period's general tone-C derivation of 刺 (OC *tsʰiek) (ibid.)

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