肚
Meanings
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- 1.belly
- 1.tripe
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Wiktionary
- 1.belly; abdomen; bowels
- 2.bulge; protrusion
- 3.tripe; animal stomach (as food)
- 4.heart; mind
- 5.belly; abdomen
- 6.central part (of something)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔl'aːʔ, *l'aːʔ): semantic ⺼ + phonetic 土 (OC *l̥ʰaːʔ, *l'aːʔ). A post-classical word. Compare Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-tjwa (“mouth; beak; food; stomach”), whence Tibetan ལྟོ་བ (lto ba, “stomach; belly”) (STEDT). Compare also Proto-Tai *dwuːŋꟲ (“belly”) (whence Thai ท้อง (tɔ́ɔng)) and Proto-Kam-Sui *luŋ² (“stomach”), as Middle Chinese shangsheng corresponds to foreign -ŋ in some words (Schuessler, 2007). Some dialects have different pronunciations for the two senses, "abdomen; belly (of a human)" and "stomach (of an animal)", derived from two different readings in Middle Chinese that differed in the voicing of the initial consonant. * In Mandarin, the pronunciation for the former sense derives from the 徒古切 reading in Middle Chinese (i.e. the reading with voiced initial /d/) and the pronunciation for the latter sense derives from the 當古切 (i.e. the reading with voiceless initial /t/) reading. * In Min Nan, the pronunciation for the former sense derives from the 當古切 reading and the pronunciation for latter sense derives from the 徒古切 reading. * Cantonese uses the same pronunciation for both senses, derived from the 徒古切 reading. * Hakka also uses the same pronunciation for both senses, but it is instead derived from the 當古切 reading.
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