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zhòng
HSK 1freq #608

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zhòng
  1. 1.heavy
  2. 2.serious
  3. 3.to attach importance to
chóng
  1. 1.to repeat
  2. 2.repetition
  3. 3.again
  4. 4.re-
  5. 5.classifier: layer

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.heavy
  2. 2.weight
  3. 3.deep; grave; serious; severe; hard
  4. 4.considerable (in amount)
  5. 5.weighty; important
  6. 6.grave; serious
  7. 7.solemn
  8. 8.prudent
  9. 9.to respect; to attach importance to
  10. 10.still
  11. 11.even more
  12. 12.to repeat; to duplicate
  13. 13.to stack up; to pile up; to overlay
  14. 14.again; once more
  15. 15.Classifier for layers of an object.

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *doŋ, *doŋʔ, *doŋs) and ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): semantic 人 (“man”) + phonetic 東 (OC *toːŋ, “bag”) – a man carrying a bag. A glyph 土 (“earth”) was later added to show that the bag-carrying man is standing on the ground. From this composition (𡍺) is the current form. In the modern form, the man on top can be seen as 亻 (however, the upper part of the character is unrelated to 千). See also 以, in which a person is carrying something, 央, in which a person is carrying a pole, and 年, in which a person is carrying the harvest. Schuessler (2007) notes that the etymology is uncertain and compares the word to Burmese စုံ (cum, “to be sufficient; pair”), which STEDT puts under Proto-Sino-Tibetan *dzum ~ tsum (“pair”). Pronunciation 3 is the exoactive derivation of pronunciation 1.

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