息
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Han character
息 (radical 61, 心+6, 10 strokes, cangjie input 竹山心 (HUP), four-corner 26330, composition ⿱自心)
References
- KangXi: page 385, character 20
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 10601
- Dae Jaweon: page 717, character 10
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2291, character 4
- Unihan data for U+606F
Chinese
Glyph origin
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| 息 | *slɯɡ |
| 熄 | *slɯɡ |
| 媳 | *slɯɡ |
| 鄎 | *slɯɡ |
| 瘜 | *slɯɡ |
| 蒠 | *slɯɡ |
Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 自 (“nose”) + 心 (“heart”) – to breath (life) through one’s nose. Note that this uses the older meaning of 自, as “nose”, rather than “self”.
Etymology 1
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-sak (“breath; life; to breathe”). Cognate with Jingpho sa' (“to breathe”), Burmese အသက် (a.sak).
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Etymology 3
| For pronunciation and definitions of 息 – see 熄 (“to extinguish; to go out”). (This character, 息, is the second-round simplified form of 熄.) |
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