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nǎn
  1. 1.brisket
  2. 2.belly beef
  3. 3.spongy meat from cow's underside and neighboring ribs
  4. 4.see 牛腩[niú nǎn] esp. Cantonese
  5. 5.erroneously translated as sirloin

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to dip (meat) in condiments before roasting
  2. 2.dried meat
  3. 3.belly flesh; belly meat; sirloin; tenderloin

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *nuːmʔ): semantic 肉 (“meat; flesh”) + phonetic 南 (OC *nuːm). May be related to Proto-Tibeto-Burman *s-n(u/a)m (STEDT); compare Tibetan སྣུམ (snum, “oil”), Lepcha ᰍᰪᰮᰗᰪ (numtsu). For the "sirloin" sense, note similarities to Burmese နံ (nam, “flank; rib”).

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