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CC-CEDICT

  1. 1.man of sixty or seventy

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.man of sixty
  2. 2.aged; old; senior
  3. 3.tyrannical
  4. 4.to detest; to abhor
  5. 5.to cause; to result in
  6. 6.Original form of 嗜 (shì, “to be fond of”).

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡri): semantic 老 + phonetic 旨 (OC *kjiʔ). Related to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *b-gryas (“old”), whence Burmese ကြီး (kri:, “great, big, old”) (STEDT).

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