脷
/li⁵¹/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•tongue (human or animal) (Classifier: 條／条 c) · tongue of an animal
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声): semantic ⺼ (“meat”) + phonetic 利. Specialization of 利 (“benefit; profit”). From 利 (“benefit; profit”), used as a euphemism for 舌 (“tongue”), which is homophonous to 折, 蝕 /蚀 (“to be at a loss”). Alternatively, it may be from 舐 (OC *ɦljeʔ, “to lick”), preserving the Old Chinese initial *l- (Schuessler, 2007).