苦
/kʰu²¹⁴/
ÇINCE → TR
Tanım
•bitter · Alternative name for 荼 (tú, “bitter plant”). · difficult; painful; hard
Etimoloji
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kʰaːʔ, *kʰaːs): semantic 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 古 (OC *kaːʔ) – bitter (as in bitter plants). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kaʔ (“bitter; salty”); compare Tibetan ཁ (kha, “bitter”), Tangut 𗎖 (*khie¹, “bitter”) (STEDT; Jacques, 2014). Within Chinese, cognate with 肝 (OC *kaːn, “liver”).