Chinese
腦
/nɑʊ̯²¹⁴/
brain (Classifier: 個／个 m c)
- Ideogrammatic compound 會意
- HSK 1
- TOCFL 5
- radical 肉
- 13 strokes
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Origin
Originally 匘, an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 匕 + 巛 (“hair”) + 囟 (“head; fontanel”). 匕 was later replaced with 肉 (“flesh”).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *rnuq. Cognate with Burmese ဦးနှောက် (u:hnauk), Nuosu ꀑꆊ (o not, “brain”), Jingpho nu' (“brain”), Drung unu (“brain; mind”), Japhug tɯrnoʁ, S'gaw Karen ခိၣ်နူာ် (khoh̀noọ, “brain”).
From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lineage
- inheritedProto-Sino-Tibetan*rnuq
- ideaChinese匕 “a kind of spoon in ancient China”
- ideaChinese巛 “hair”
- ideaChinese囟 “fontanelle”
Related: Burmese ဦးနှောက်, Nuosu ꀑꆊ, Jingpho nu', Drung unu, Japhug tɯrnoʁ, S'gaw Karen ခိၣ်နူာ်
Words built on it: 電腦
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: 腦