吉
Meanings
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- 1.short name for Jilin 吉林[Jí lín]
- 2.surname Ji
- 1.lucky
- 2.giga- (meaning billion or 10^9)
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Wiktionary
- 1.auspicious; lucky
- 2.good
- 3.empty
- 4.emptiness; nothingness
- 5.to accuse; to sue; to file a lawsuit; to press charges
- 6.Used in transcription.
- 7.a surname
- 8.Ji County (a county of Linfen, Shanxi, China)
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) – originally 圭 and 口 in the oracle bone script. The top component mutated into 士 in Western Zhou bronze inscriptions. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-kjit (“happy; pleased”) (STEDT). Also compare Tibetan སྐྱིད་པ (skyid pa, “to be happy”) and Burmese ချစ် (hkyac, “to love, to be pleased”) (Schuessler, 2007, Hill, 2019). Cantonese sense of “empty” arises from avoidance of 空 (hung¹, “empty”), which is homophonous to 凶 (hung¹, “inauspicious”). The Taiwanese Chinese sense of “to sue” arises from avoidance of 告 (gào, “to sue”), which is a typo form of it.
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