薪
Meanings
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- 1.(literary) firewood; fuel
- 2.(bound form) salary
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Wiktionary
- 1.firewood; fuelwood; brushwood
- 2.salary; wage
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *siŋ): semantic 艹 + phonetic 新 (OC *siŋ). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *siŋ ~ sik (“wood”). Cognate with Tibetan ཤིང (shing, “tree, wood”) and Burmese သစ် (sac, “log, timber, wood”). Compare its phonetic component 新 (OC *siŋ, “new”) and Burmese သစ် (sac, “new”).
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
汤姆时薪大约三十美元。
Tom makes about thirty dollars an hour.
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Derived terms
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