臣
/ʈ͡ʂʰən³⁵/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•slave; servant; captive · minister; statesman; official (in feudal society) · subjects of a monarch
Etimoloji
Pictogram (象形) – 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 臨 (“to look down at”) and 監 (“to inspect”). Compare 目. Unrelated to 𦣞. In Old Chinese, nominalization with nasal suffix of the verb 視 (OC *ɡljilʔ, *ɡljils, *ɢljils, “to watch”),…