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chén
  1. 1.dust
  2. 2.dirt
  3. 3.earth

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  1. 1.dust; dirt; ashes; cinders
  2. 2.to be streaked with dirt; to become stained
  3. 3.trace; footprint
  4. 4.dirty thing
  5. 5.war; warfare
  6. 6.this world; mundane world; this mortal life
  7. 7.the number 10⁻⁹; billionth
  8. 8.for a long time
  9. 9.a surname

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Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 鹿 (“deer”) + 土 (“soil, dust”) – cloud of dust produced by a (group of) running deer. Ancient simplification of 𪋻, which pictures three deer on top instead of one. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-durl (“dust”). Cognate with Tibetan རྡུལ (rdul, “dust, particle”).

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