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wěn
HSK 7freq #2797

Meanings

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wěn
  1. 1.variant of 吻[wěn]
wěn
  1. 1.kiss
  2. 2.to kiss
  3. 3.mouth

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.proboscis; lip; corner of the lips
  2. 2.to shut the lips
  3. 3.to kiss; kiss (Classifier: 啖 c)
  4. 4.to coincide; to tally; to be consistent

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *mɯnʔ): semantic 口 + phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd). Unknown. Various possibilities are (Schuessler, 2007): * Related to 門 (OC *mɯːn, “door”); * Related to Mizo hmûi (“lips; upper lip”); * Related to Proto-Vietic *c-ɓuːj(ʔ) (“lip”) (Vietnamese môi); * Related to Burmese မုတ် (mut, “mouth”) (in မုတ်ဆိတ် (muthcit, “beard”)) and မှုတ် (hmut, “to blow with mouth”); * Related to Khmer មាត់ (mŏət, “mouth, lip”).

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