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Pronunciation
:
chóu
Meaning
:
hesitant; smug/confident
Etymology
:
Feet 足 in old age 寿 (夀, also phonetic). (
associative/phono-semantic compound
).
Traditional character
: 躊
Found in
:
Bai JuYi's 长恨歌
Word of the day on: 09.26.09