器
/t͡ɕʰi⁵¹/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•device; tool; utensil; ware · organ · capacity; tolerance
Etimoloji
Uncertain. The classical interpretation is an ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): a 犬 (“dog”) guarding four 口 (“vessels”). It might also be a phonetically borrowed character, originally meaning “to bark” (Compare 狺). Another theory states the character is derived from 喪 (“mourning”). (Compare 噩, 哭 , 咢). Borrowed not for sound but as an ideogram (指事) referring to a funerary urn.