禽
Meanings
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- 1.(bound form) birds; fowl
- 2.(literary) birds and animals
- 3.old variant of 擒[qín]
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Wiktionary
- 1.birds and beasts
- 2.birds (as a general category); fowl
- 3.a surname
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Etymology
In oracle bone inscriptions, pictogram (象形) of a net, originally the same character as 𠦒 and 畢. In bronze inscriptions, the phonetic component 今 (OC *krɯm) was added, making the character phono-semantic (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡrɯm). This form was borrowed for its modern meaning, and the original meaning of "capture" came to be represented by 擒 (OC *ɡrɯm). In the modern form, 今 has corrupted into 人 and 𠦒 into 离. Compare with 畢.
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