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Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 1) hundred

Glyph origin
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According to , the character meant “to polish jade”. The current meaning “to order, tidy up” may be derived from it.

Etymology

 * "to cut jade, to mark out (field boundaries)"
 * From (STEDT; ); cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 & . Schuessler glossed its fundamental meaning as "cut in a regular way, divide into equal sections".


 * "to regulate"
 * STEDT groups this sense "to cut jade, to mark out (field boundaries)"; noted that  "to regulate" was often thought to be the same word as  "to divide into sections", as the former sense might be derived from the latter.


 * "to administer"
 * Probably related to


 * "envoy, jail official, matchmaker"
 * Related to, , and
 * Possibly the same word as "to administer".
 * According to, from ; compare 🇨🇬 & its derivatives 🇨🇬, in turn related to ; with Sino-Tibetan causative *s- corresponding to Khmer causative *p-..

Definitions

 * 1)  to cut and polish jade
 * 2) to put in order; to tidy up
 * 3) to manage; to run; to handle
 * 4)  to pay attention to; to care about
 * 5)  to concern oneself with; to interfere with
 * 6) texture; grain (of wood)
 * 7) reason; logic; truth; science
 * 8) natural science
 * 9)  envoy; jail-official; matchmaker
 * 1)  to concern oneself with; to interfere with
 * 2) texture; grain (of wood)
 * 3) reason; logic; truth; science
 * 4) natural science
 * 5)  envoy; jail-official; matchmaker
 * 1) natural science
 * 2)  envoy; jail-official; matchmaker
 * 1) natural science
 * 2)  envoy; jail-official; matchmaker
 * 1)  envoy; jail-official; matchmaker
 * 1)  envoy; jail-official; matchmaker
 * 1)  envoy; jail-official; matchmaker

Synonyms






Descendants
Others:

Noun

 * 1) reason, logic

Etymology
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