弩

Glyph origin
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Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

suggests a derivation from, as the crossbow shoots arrows by releasing elastic potential energy stored in its limbs. cites Gernet's opinion that had been semantically extended to mean the whole crossbow.

More likely, and 🇨🇬 were Sinitic and Tibeto-Burman renditions of a  Wanderwort, possibly of  origin. Compare other MSEA lexical items meaning "crossbow": Also compare 🇨🇬 (cf. 🇨🇬) whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.
 * 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬;
 * 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬;
 * 🇨🇬, whence 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) crossbow

Kanji

 * 1) crossbow
 * 2) one of abbreviations for loanwords whose transcription begin with the syllable ド (Do). Especially, dreadnought.
 * 3) * 1916, Machida Shiro, 獨逸戰前の真相, Waseda University Press, page 129:
 * "ja"

- 獨逸に於ける最初の弩級戦艦はナッサウ、エストファーレンの二艦である