损
損HSK 7freq #6484
Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) to decrease; to diminish
- 2.(bound form) to harm; to damage
- 3.(coll.) to ridicule; to deride
- 4.(coll.) mean; nasty; sarcastic
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Wiktionary
- 1.to suck (with one's mouth)
- 2.to lick; to taste with the tongue
- 3.to land on food and feed (of flies, mosquitoes, etc.)
- 4.to pick off or strip off or scrape off edible food from inedible material like bone, shell, or seeds (usually with one's teeth and/or tongue)
- 5.to gnaw; to nibble off causing holes (by insects)
- 6.to comb; to pluck or pick off dirt (as a bird grooms itself with its beak)
- 7.to nitpick; to find fault; to be fussy
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Etymology
Probably from an extension of a Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mljəw (“to swallow, suck”); compare Burmese မျို (myui, “to swallow”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).
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Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
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