肚

Glyph origin
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Etymology
A post-classical word. Compare, whence 🇨🇬 (STEDT). Compare also 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬) and 🇨🇬, as Middle Chinese shangsheng corresponds to foreign -ŋ in some words.

Some dialects have different pronunciations for the two senses, "abdomen; belly (of a human)" and "stomach (of an animal)", derived from two different readings in Middle Chinese that differed in the voicing of the initial consonant.
 * In Mandarin, the pronunciation for the former sense derives from the 徒古切 reading in Middle Chinese (i.e. the reading with voiced initial ) and the pronunciation for the latter sense derives from the 當古切 (i.e. the reading with voiceless initial ) reading.
 * In Min Nan, the pronunciation for the former sense derives from the 當古切 reading and the pronunciation for latter sense derives from the 徒古切 reading.
 * Cantonese uses the same pronunciation for both senses, derived from the 徒古切 reading.
 * Hakka also uses the same pronunciation for both senses, but it is instead derived from the 當古切 reading.

Definitions

 * 1) belly; abdomen; bowels
 * 2) bulge; protrusion
 * 3)  tripe; animal stomach (as food)
 * 4) heart; mind
 * 1) heart; mind

Definitions

 * 1)  belly; abdomen
 * 2) tripe; animal stomach (as food)
 * 3)  bulge; protrusion
 * 1)  bulge; protrusion
 * 1)  bulge; protrusion

Etymology 1
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Affix

 * 1) abdomen, belly