頸

Glyph origin
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Etymology 1
compares this to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, and suggests that this word is part of a larger word family based on a 🇨🇬 root. These 🇨🇬 comparanda are given under 🇨🇬 in STEDT.

relates this to, but finds this relationship unlikely.

Definitions

 * 1) neck
 * 2) neck-like thing
 * 1) neck-like thing

Etymology 2
Usually considered to be the colloquial reading of etymology 1. considers the semantic narrowing from “neck” to “nape” in the limited context of to be implausible.

Etymology
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