尊
Meanings
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- 1.senior
- 2.of a senior generation
- 3.to honor
- 4.to respect
- 5.honorific
- 6.classifier for cannons and statues
- 7.ancient wine vessel
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Wiktionary
- 1.to respect; to revere; to venerate
- 2.to honor
- 3.zun (a type of container for alcoholic beverage in historical China)
- 4.Classifier for heavy and chiefly immobile artificial objects; colossuses. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
- 5.your (honorfic)
- 6.glorious; marvelous; wonderful
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Etymology
Shuowen: Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 酋 (“wine”) + 寸 (“hand”) – to give 寸 (cùn) an offering such as a vessel of wine 酋 (qiú) – to show respect, veneration. However per small seal script, it may instead be a variant of 𢍜, which is Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 酋 (“wine”) + 廾 (“two hands”). Cognate to Tibetan བཙུན (btsun), བཙུན་པ (btsun pa, “respectable, venerable”), མཚུན (mtshun, “ancestor god”). The "vessel" sense is because it was used in ritual ceremonies (Schuessler, 2007). ; "glorious; marvelous; wonderful"
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Related words
尊重 to esteem尊敬 to respect; to revere; to esteem尊严 dignity自尊 self-respect尊贵 respected天尊 (honorific appellation of a deity)尊命 your order (honorific)尊堂 (honorific) your mother尊公 (honorific) your father释尊 another name for Sakyamuni 释迦牟尼佛, the historical Buddha至尊 the most honorable尊翁 (honorific) your father