物
Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) thing
- 2.(literary) the outside world as distinct from oneself; people other than oneself
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Wiktionary
- 1.thing, matter
- 2.all of the outside world, excluding oneself
- 3.substance, content
- 4.to choose, to select
- 5.to seek, to look for
- 6.to do
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *mɯd): semantic 牛 + phonetic 勿 (OC *mɯd). Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(m/b)rəw (“grain; seed; lineage”) (STEDT), whence Tibetan འབྲུ ('bru, “seed; grain”), Jingpho amyu (ə myú, “kind; sort”), Burmese မျိုး (myui:, “seed”). Within Sinitic, compare 苗 (OC *mrew, “seedling, sprout”), 麰 (OC *mu, “barley”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
馬是動物。
Horses are animals.
物價上漲。
Prices went up.
萬物真美好。
The world is beautiful.
獅子是動物。
A lion is an animal.
獅子是動物。
Lions are animals.
你喜歡購物嗎？
Do you like shopping?
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Derived terms
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