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Alternative forms
Note that Japanese uses 舎 (土口), while Chinese uses 舍 (干口).

Glyph origin
– to discard with the hand.

Etymology

 * to give up
 * word possibly of origin ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 > 🇨🇬 (> 🇨🇬,, & 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (> 🇨🇬), etc. (ibid.), from 🇨🇬 >.


 * is perhaps its exoactive derivative with suffix *-s/*-h (ibid.)


 * Schuessler also notes this word-family's parallel to (whose derivative  is related by  to  > ), even though the different phonetics imply different Old Chinese pronuncations; the roots *lhaʔ ~ *lhak ~ *lhaiʔ (>  (B-S)) are probably variants with parallel morphological and semantic developments.

Definitions

 * 1) to give up; to abandon
 * 2) to give alms
 * 3) to leave; to part
 * 1) to give alms
 * 2) to leave; to part

Kanji

 * 1) to discard