村

Glyph origin
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Origin unclear. Seems a late graph, not in Shuowen dictionary of ca.100AD. Ogawa treats it as variant of CO graph 杶 ‘lacquer tree’ which was used phonetically in the sense of‘village’ in place of another graph for ’village’, 邨, which may be taken provisionally as 阝 (邑)‘settlement, village’, and 屯 ‘accumulate, stay’ as semantic and phonetic.

Definitions

 * 1) village; hamlet
 * 2)  housing estate
 * 3)  rustic; boorish; uncouth; vulgar
 * 4)  to scold
 * 5) rural village (an administrative unit in the Republic of China)
 * 1)  rustic; boorish; uncouth; vulgar
 * 2)  to scold
 * 3) rural village (an administrative unit in the Republic of China)

Etymology 1
From.

Affix

 * 1) village
 * 2) local administrative division

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronunciation

 * ラー

Noun

 * 1) village

Etymology 1
. One theory suggests a contraction of, derived from. Might be related to, possibly from +.

Noun

 * 1) a village

Etymology 2
No phonographic attestations exist. This reading is glossed to 村邑 in the Atsuda manuscript of the .

According to one theory, possibly borrowed from some dialect of. Compare.

Noun

 * 1) a village

Etymology 3
Possibly derived from.

Noun

 * 1)  a village