布

Glyph origin
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Etymology

 * "to spread out" (tr.)
 * Likely from . considers this sense to be cognate with:
 * ,, , & ; as well as
 * outside Sinitic, with Proto- *phaʔ, whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,


 * "cloth"
 * "Cloth" is often thought to be the same etymon as "to spread (out)" (tr.). Alternatively, Schuessler thinks this sense's origin more likely. Indeed, a late Han (漢) dynasty's word for "cotton", 幏布 *ka(H)-puoH, was borrowed from the Austroasiatic-speaking - peoples, and a Sanskrit loan (c. 430 CE) into Northwestern dialect is 古貝 *koX-peiH. Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (→ 🇨🇬 & 🇨🇬).


 * Additionally, Schuessler suggests that the Austroasiatic word was the source of 🇨🇬 & 🇨🇬. Still, earlier stated that "the problem of etymological origin of karpāsa has not been resolved".

Definitions

 * 1) cloth; textiles
 * 2) to announce; to proclaim
 * 3) to spread
 * 4) to deploy; to set out
 * 1) to spread
 * 2) to deploy; to set out
 * 1) to deploy; to set out
 * 1) to deploy; to set out
 * 1) to deploy; to set out

Etymology 1
→ * →

From, from.

Noun

 * 1) cloth
 * 2)  umbrella term for something wide, horizontal, level, parallel, etc. as in a piece of cloth

Etymology 2
From.


 * “Hawaii”

Short form of spelling.

Noun

 * 1) cloth
 * 2)  a type of bronze coin used during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China

Affix

 * 1) cloth
 * 2) spread out evenly
 * 3) spread widely
 * 4) type of ancient Chinese currency

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) cloth

Etymology 2
The eastern variant, attested from an Azuma-uta poem in the Man’yōshū. Presumably from pre-form *neno.

Noun

 * 1)  cloth
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