Chinese

臉

liǎn
cheek
  • Phono-semantic compound 形聲
  • HSK 2
  • TOCFL 3
  • radical 肉
  • 17 strokes

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Origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ɡ·reːmʔ, *skʰlam, *kramʔ): semantic ⺼ (“body part”) + phonetic 僉 (OC *skʰlam).

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-gram (“cheek; face”). Cognate with Tibetan འགྲམ་པ ('gram pa, “cheek”), འགྲམ་རུས ('gram rus, “cheekbone”) (Schuessler, 2007).

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • inheritedProto-Sino-Tibetan*s-gram “cheek; face”
  • meaningChinese肉 “meat; flesh”
  • soundChinese僉 “all; together; unanimous”
    • ideaChinese亼 “mouth”
      • ideaChinese入 “to enter; to go into”
      • ideaChinese一 “one”
    • ideaChinese兄 “elder brother”
      • ideaChinese口 “mouth, especially the lips and internal mouth cavity (Classifier: 把 c)”
      • ideaChinese儿 “standing person”
    • ideaChinese吅 “to speak loudly”
    • ideaChinese从 “two people standing together”

Related: Tibetan འགྲམ་པ

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