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hán
HSK 4freq #3249

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hán
  1. 1.to keep in the mouth
  2. 2.to contain

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  1. 1.to hold or keep in the mouth
  2. 2.to contain inside; to comprise; to include
  3. 3.to bear; to endure
  4. 4.to harbor (emotion); to nurse; to endure; to hold back
  5. 5.a surname, Han
  6. 6.Original form of 琀 (hàn, “gems and pearls stuffed into a corpse's mouth”).
  7. 7.to put gems and pearls into a corpse's mouth
  8. 8.Ham

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡɯːm): phonetic 今 (OC *krɯm) + semantic 口 (“mouth”). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mV-kəm (“to put into mouth; to seize with mouth”) (STEDT, under *gam); cognate with Tibetan འགམ་པ ('gam pa, “to put into the mouth”), Proto-Tani *g(j)am (“bite”). Within Chinese, cognate with 函 (OC *ɡuːm, *ɡruːm, “to contain; box; letter”) (Schuessler, 2007). 銜 (OC *ɡraːm, “to carry in the mouth; horse's bit”) is probably related. Bodman (1980) considers 頷 (OC *ɡɯːm, *ɡɯːmʔ) to be the endoactive of 含 (OC *ɡɯːm, “to hold in the mouth”), literally “the thing that holds something in the mouth”.

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