禺
Meanings
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- 1.old variant of 偶[ǒu]
- 1.(archaic) district
- 2.(old) type of monkey
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Wiktionary
- 1.a kind of large monkey with a long tail and red eyes
- 2.area; district
- 3.time before noon, around 9–11 a.m.
- 4.(literary) alternative form of 愚 (yú, “foolish”)
- 5.Yu (a mountain in Zhejiang, China)
- 6.a surname
- 7.to match; to be a pair
- 8.statue; figure
- 9.only used in 禺禺
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Etymology
Unclear. Shuowen considers it to be an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 甶 (“head of a ghost”) + 禸 (“to trample”) – a kind of monkey. In the bronze script, the top of the character resembles the head of a ghost (鬼) and/or a mask (異) and the bottom resembles 禹. Zhang et al. (1996) considers this character differentiated (分化) from 禹 and that the character is a pictogram (象形) of a kind of insect with a decorative mark, similar to the one in 萬 (“scorpion”). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋaːw (“monkey”); compare Proto-Kuki-Chin *ŋaaw (“long-tailed / grey monkey”), whence Mizo ngao (“grey monkey”) (Schuessler, 2007; Sagart and Baxter, 2016).
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