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<WL>蛇 [shé] snake  [yí] 虚与委蛇 @@[tuó] [chí]
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<WL>蛇 [shé] snake  [yí] 虚与委蛇@@ [tuó] 尺蠖  [chí] (地名)
 
From 虫 (chóng) ‘worm’ and 它 tā ‘it’.
 
From 虫 (chóng) ‘worm’ and 它 tā ‘it’.
 
它 depicted a cobra or python. The ancient sounds of 蛇 and 它 (now shé and tā) were similar. Apparently when 它 was borrowed to represent the word tā ‘other; he, she, it’, 虫 was added to 它, forming 蛇, to represent the original meaning ‘snake’.
 
它 depicted a cobra or python. The ancient sounds of 蛇 and 它 (now shé and tā) were similar. Apparently when 它 was borrowed to represent the word tā ‘other; he, she, it’, 虫 was added to 它, forming 蛇, to represent the original meaning ‘snake’.
 
#rG.041.42,160.47,165.34 W.108a K.AD1011,GSR4l D.4.2845.8 M.5698 KX..1080.20 B.191.1.08
 
#rG.041.42,160.47,165.34 W.108a K.AD1011,GSR4l D.4.2845.8 M.5698 KX..1080.20 B.191.1.08
 
#c虫它
 
#c虫它
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Revision as of 16:13, 8 September 2015

[shé] snake [] ​蛇 [tuó] ​ [chí] (​)

2 monosyllabic entries in The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (namespace Ci):

¹shé {B} n. snake; serpent
²⁰yí char. ►³yíyí 蛇蛇 ►⁴wēiyí 委蛇

From ​ (chóng) ‘worm’ and ​ tā ‘it’.
    ​ depicted a cobra or python. The ancient sounds of 蛇 and ​ (now shé and tā) were similar. Apparently when ​ was borrowed to represent the word tā ‘other; he, she, it’, ​ was added to ​, forming 蛇, to represent the original meaning ‘snake’.
►references: Guǎngyùn:041.42,160.47,165.34; Wieger:108a; Karlgren:AD1011,GSR4l; Hànyǔ Dà Zìdiǎn:4.2845.8; Mathews:5698; Kāngxī Zìdiǎn:1080.20; Bǐshùn Guīfàn:191.1.08
►components:
►Cantonese: seh\ yih\
►stroke 蛇 (... strokes)   
►list characters containing 蛇 as a component
►list words containing 蛇 (most common words first)
Unicode: U+86C7
►web links for ‘蛇’
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