Chinese

基督教

/t͡ɕi⁵⁵ tu⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯⁵¹/
Christianity
  • HSK 6
  • TOCFL 5
  • 基督敎

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Origin

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 基督教 (Kirisuto-kyō)

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • borrowedJapanese基督教
  • characterChinese基 “foot of a wall; foundation”
    • soundChinese其 “his; her; its; their”
    • meaningChinese土 “earth; soil”
  • characterChinese督 “to supervise; to superintend; to oversee”
    • soundChinese叔 “third brother (of four)”
      • soundChinese尗 “wooden stake”
      • meaningChinese又 “again; once more”
    • meaningChinese目 “eye (Classifier: 雙／双 mn-t)”
  • characterChinese教 “to teach; to instruct”
    • soundChinese爻 “a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines; a hexagram of the I Ching”
      • componentChinese乂 “original form of 刈 (yì, “to weed; to mow”)”
    • meaningChinese子 “child; offspring; descendant”
    • meaningChinese攴 “to hit lightly; to tap”

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