殷
Meanings
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- 1.dark red
- 1.roll of thunder
- 1.surname Yin
- 2.dynasty name at the end the Shang dynasty, after its move to Yinxu 殷墟[Yīn xū] in present-day Henan
- 1.flourishing
- 2.abundant
- 3.earnest
- 4.hospitable
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Wiktionary
- 1.(～朝) Shang Dynasty after Pan Geng moved the capital of the state to its final location at Yīn (i.e., Late Shang Dynasty)
- 2.(～朝) Alternative name for 商 (shāng, “Shang Dynasty”).
- 3.abundant; rich
- 4.large; flourishing
- 5.many; numerous
- 6.deep
- 7.a surname
- 8.blood red; deep red
- 9.resonant, sustained sound of thunder; rumble
- 10.to shake; to tremble
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Etymology
Two forms are attested in the oracle bone script: # Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 㐆 (“person with a swollen belly”) + 矢 (“arrow-like object”) + 又 (“hand”) — a hand directing an arrow-like object at a person's belly. Chen (2019) identifies this as the original character of 慇 (OC *qɯn, “abdominal pain > sorrowful; earnest”). # Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 㐆 (“person with a swollen belly”) + 殳 (“hand holding a mallet”) — a hand directing a mallet at a person's belly. Chen (2019) associates the mallet with percussion instruments, signifying "grand music", which generalized to "grand", "substantial", "numerous", and "deep red". In the Anhui University bamboo slips, the character is written as 𫴄 (composed of 宀, 西, 土, and 攴). This form is likely connected to the Shang ritual of burning large-bellied shamans (巫尪) to pray for rain, given that 土 was frequently conflated with 火 (“fire”), 西 with a human head, and 攴 represents a hand holding a striking implement. Furthermore, 𫴄 is structurally linked to 𡫚 (composed of 宀, 西, 火, and 示), the Zhou-dynasty script variant of 禋 (OC *qin, “smoke sacrifice”). Old Chinese 殷 (OC *ʔ(ˤr)ən(ʔ)) may be cognate with a semantic word family encompassing the following concepts: * to stuff, to accumulate, to block; * to wrap, to contain, to cover; * warmth, brewing, stability; * deep, suppressed emotions.
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