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•elephant (Classifier: 頭／头 m; 隻／只 m c mn) · ivory; tusk · elephant: 🩩 (on the black side) (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
Etimoloji
Pictogram (象形) - pictographic representation of an elephant. ⺈ represents the trunk, 𫩏 represents the head, and 𧰨 represents the body. This character is used to represent two semantic fields ‘elephant; tusk’ and ‘to outline; to depict; to delineate; to represent; to resemble; to map’. Both fields are found from the earliest layers of the edited literature onwards, whereas only the first meaning…