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  1. 1.fat
  2. 2.rouge (cosmetics)
  3. 3.resin

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.fat; grease; lard

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kji): semantic 月 (“meat”) + phonetic 旨 (OC *kjiʔ). It is thought to descend from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tsil (“fat, grease”), although the initial does not match the one of the Old Chinese reconstructions (Matisoff, STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).

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