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zhōu
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Meanings

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zhōu
  1. 1.boat

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.boat (Classifier: 葉/叶; 艘; 條/条; 隻/只)
  2. 2.to ride in a boat; to sail a boat
  3. 3.a surname

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Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a boat. Later sometimes written as 月, 肉 or 凡 in components. According to Schuessler (2007), a loan from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɗuuk ~ *ɗuk (“boat, canoe”), whence Khmer ទូក (tuuk) and Vietnamese nốc (< Proto-Vietic *ɗoːk (“boat”)). Foreign closed syllables having a long main vowel often correspond to open syllables in Old Chinese. Possibly cognate of 輈 (OC *tɯw, “trunk, pole”) (Schuessler, 2007). Yang Xiong's Fangyan says that Old Chinese 舟 (OC *tjɯw) is common in central and eastern China, while its synonym 船 (OC *ɦljon) is used in western China.

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