友
Meanings
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- 1.friend
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Wiktionary
- 1.friend; companion
- 2.to make friends with
- 3.to love each other
- 4.friendly
- 5.guy; bloke (Classifier: 條／条 c; 班 c; 丁 c; 兜 c)
- 6.a surname
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɢʷɯʔ): phonetic 又 (OC *ɢʷɯs) + phonetic 又 (OC *ɢʷɯs) Shuowen: two hands, therefore friendship. Endoactive derivation of 右 (OC *ɢʷɯʔ, “right”) (Schuessler, 2007). Traditionally considered cognate with Tibetan གྲོགས (grogs, “friend; companion”) (STEDT). Schuessler rejects this comparison, believing that the -r- is the initial of a root instead of the g-, and thus that any Chinese cognate of the Tibetan word must also have an initial *r (which 友 does not have).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
湯姆和我是隊友。
Tom and I are teammates.
你的友誼對我來說意義重大。
Your friendship means a lot to me.
我羨慕Tom和Mary之間的友誼。
I envy the friendship Tom and Mary have.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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