康居

Chinese
peaceful; spongy (of radishes) reside
trad. (康居) 康 居
simp. #(康居) 康 居

Etymology

Unclear. Pulleyblank (1962) connects this to Tocharian A kāṅka (“stone (possibly)”) while Ünal (2022) reconstructs underlying form *kaŋk-, an Iranian word meaning "stone" and comparable to Pashto [script needed] (kā́ṇay, “stone”).[1]

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Proper noun

康居

  1. (historical) Kangju (a historical polity in the West), today identified as Sogdiana

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References
  1. Ünal, Orçun (2022). "On *p- and Other Proto-Turkic Consonants" Sino-Platonic Papers, 325, p. 45-46 of 3 - 106
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