朵
/tu̯ɔ²¹⁴/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•hanging from a tree · flower or calyx of a plant · Classifier for flowers, clouds, etc.
Etimoloji
Originally a Ideogram (指事) depicting a stalk of a plant 禾 with something drooping. The bottom part of 禾 corrupted into 木, while the extra stroke corrupted into 乃, later simplified into 几. “Hanging from a tree” > “flower” > classifier for flowers. Probably from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *(d/n)waj (“to hang from; to cling to; creeper”); see 垂 (OC *djol, “to hang down”) for more (Schuessler, 2007; STEDT).…