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qiāng
HSK 7freq #7193

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qiāng
  1. 1.(bound form) cavity
  2. 2.(bound form) speech; talk
  3. 3.tune
  4. 4.accent (in one's speech)
  5. 5.(old) classifier for carcasses of slaughtered livestock

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.cavity; hollow in body
  2. 2.tune; melody
  3. 3.accent of one's speech
  4. 4.speech; dialect; language
  5. 5.speech; talk

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Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kʰroːŋ): semantic 肉 (“meat; flesh”) + phonetic 空 (OC *kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋs, “empty; hollow”). Cognate with 空 (OC *kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋs, “empty; hollow”) (Wang, 1982).

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