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Meanings

CC-CEDICT

  1. 1.to state to, to announce

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *pʰa) and ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): phonetic 甫 (OC *paʔ, “garden”) + semantic 寸 (“hand”) – to distribute crops. However, the phonetic component has a reference to a sprout growing in a field 田 according to its original version.

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Components

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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