槛
檻Meanings
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- 1.door sill
- 2.threshold
- 1.banister
- 2.balustrade
- 3.cage for animal or prisoner
- 4.to transport caged prisoner on a cart
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Wiktionary
- 1.window
- 2.small door
- 3.to step over; to step across
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Etymology
Probably a Kra-Dai substrate word. Compare Proto-Tai *χaːmꟲ (“to cross”), whence Thai ข้าม (kâam) and Zhuang hamj.
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Related words
门槛 doorstep阑槛 see 阑槛[lán jiàn]阑槛 railing下槛 (architecture) doorsill槛车 cart with cage, used to escort prisoner笼槛 cage (for animals)轩槛 railings of a balcony核门槛 nuclear threshold笼鸟槛猿 bird in a basket, monkey in a cage (idiom); prisoner云窗雾槛 cloud around the window, mist on the threshold (idiom); tall building with the windows in the clouds朱云折槛 (idiom) Zhu Yun breaks the railing (Zhu Yun was a Han Dynasty official who accused the emperor's tutor of corruption, and when sentenced to death, clung to the palace hall railing so fiercely while demanding justice that he broke it); (fig.) to speak the truth with unwavering courage; to admonish fearlessly槛花笼鹤 a flower in a cage, a crane in a basket (idiom); prisoner