臣

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/臣

Glyph origin
– A vertical eye of a man looking downwards. As an individual character it has taken on the meanings “slave; servant; minister”, while the meaning relating to eyes appears when used as a radical, such as in and.

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Etymology
In Old Chinese, nominalization with nasal suffix of the verb, hence literally "watcher; supervisor". In the archaic language of the Shang oracle bones (late second millennium BCE ), this word referred to "royal officers, many of whose individual names were recorded, who served in the royal court, received the king's orders to launch military expeditions and other tasks, and received royal gifts".

Definitions

 * 1)  slave; servant; captive
 * 2) minister; statesman; official
 * 3)  subjects of a monarch
 * 4) to make a subject
 * 5)  I, me; your servant humble pronoun, especially when speaking to a monarch
 * 1)  subjects of a monarch
 * 2) to make a subject
 * 3)  I, me; your servant humble pronoun, especially when speaking to a monarch
 * 1) to make a subject
 * 2)  I, me; your servant humble pronoun, especially when speaking to a monarch
 * 1)  I, me; your servant humble pronoun, especially when speaking to a monarch

Etymology 1
From. Compare modern 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) vassal, subject

Pronoun

 * 1)  I, me; your servant humble pronoun, especially when speaking to a monarch

Etymology 2
/omi1/ *[omi] → /omi/ [omi]

Noun

 * 1) vassal, subject

Proper noun

 * 1)  the sixth-highest of the

Etymology
From.