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尾 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸竹手山 (SHQU), four-corner 77214, composition ⿸尸毛)
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Historical forms of the character 尾 |
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Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
Small seal script |
Ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) : 尸 (“person”) + 毛 (“hair; feather”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-maj ~ m-raj (“tail; penis”) (STEDT). Cognate with Mizo mei (“tail”), Tibetan རྨེད (rmed, “tail; crupper of straddle”), Chepang मेः (meʔ, “tail”), Burmese အမြီး (a.mri:, “tail”).
尾
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尾 |
お Grade: S |
kun'yomi |
/wo/ → /o/
From Old Japanese 尾 (wo), from Proto-Japonic *bo.[1]
First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE in the senses “tail” and “foot of a mountain”.[2]
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尾 |
び Grade: S |
kan'on |
From Middle Chinese 尾 (MC mj+jX).
尾: Hán Nôm readings: vĩ, vãi, vả, vã, vải, nhân
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