Chinese
毒品
/tu³⁵ pʰin²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
drug (illegal addictive psychoactive substance); narcotic
- HSK 6
- TOCFL 5
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Origin
Short for 鴉片煙毒／鸦片烟毒 (yāpiàn yāndú, “opium and prohibited drugs”).
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lineage
- characterChinese毒 “poison; toxin; venom; bane”
- meaningChinese屮 “new birth of plant”
- soundChinese毐 “a courtesy name”
- ideaChinese士 “unmarried male; bachelor”
- ideaChinese毋 “do not, don't”
- characterChinese品 “article; item; product; commodity”
Sources
- HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
- 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
- Written form — n/a
- Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wiktionary: 毒品