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Meanings
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- 1.totally exhausted (Cantonese)
- 2.Mandarin equivalent: 累[lèi]
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- 1.tired; exhausted; fatigued
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Etymology
Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 支 (“limb”) + 力 (“strength”) – reminiscent of the idiom 體力不支 /体力不支 (“exhausted”, literally “physical strength is unable to bear”) (Li, 2000). Likely cognate with Hakka 𤸁 (khioi, “tired”). The etymology is uncertain. This character itself is often regarded as the etymological character (本字), but the expected Cantonese reflex from the fanqie found in Jiyun (集韻) would be gwai³ instead of gui⁶. In recent years, this character has overtaken 癐 as the usual way this word is written, probably because of its appearance on the show 每日一字 in the 1980s. The following are other etymologies that have been proposed: * Bai (1980) suggests 䠩／𰸊 (“tired”) as the etymological character. This character has been rejected by Yan (2000) for being a late word. * Yan (2000) suggests 睡 (“to sleep”) as the etymological character: *gljiois (Old Chinese, based on Zhengzhang, 1987) > *gljioi > *gioi > *kioi > *koi > *kui (Guangzhou), *kɔi (Yangjiang).
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