涎

Glyph origin
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Etymology 1
Probably ; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, Rupa 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. , who reconstructs the 🇨🇬 minimally as, compares it to 🇨🇬.

Alternatively, relates it to 🇨🇬, which is derived from 🇨🇬.

Possibly related to (also cf. ).

Definitions

 * 1) saliva

Kanji

 * 1) drool, slobber, saliva

Etymology 1
From. First attested in the  of 720.

Ultimately a compound of.

Superseded by the yodare reading, once the base verb had shifted from the quadrigrade conjugation pattern to the lower bigrade pattern in the 15-1600s: see modern form.

Noun

 * 1)   snot: nasal mucus hanging or oozing out from the nose
 * 2)   drool, slobber: saliva hanging or oozing out from the mouth
 * 1)   drool, slobber: saliva hanging or oozing out from the mouth

Etymology 2
Shift from earlier yodari reading, due to the base verb shifting from the quadrigrade conjugation pattern to the lower bigrade pattern in the 15-1600s: see modern form.

First attested in a dictionary from 1548.

Noun

 * 1)   drool, slobber: saliva hanging or oozing out from the mouth