感冒
Chinese
to feel; to move; to touch to feel; to move; to touch; to affect |
to cover; to emit; to manifest to cover; to emit; to manifest; to risk; bold; brave | ||
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trad. (感冒) | 感 | 冒 | |
simp. #(感冒) | 感 | 冒 |
Etymology
Attested since the Song dynasty.
冒 (mào) probably refers to “to emit; to manifest”, with 感冒 literally meaning “affected [by the wind] and [the symptoms have] manifested”.
Pronunciation
Noun
感冒
- (pathology) cold (common viral illness); common cold
- (informal) influenza
- (literary, historical) pretext for requesting leave of absence used by officials in the Qing dynasty
- 按今制官員請假輒以感冒為辭,當即宋時「感風簿」之遺意。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
- From: 俞樾 (Yu Yue), 《茶香室叢鈔》
- Àn jīn zhì guānyuán qǐngjià zhé yǐ gǎnmào wéi cí, dāngjí Sòng shí “gǎnfēngbù” zhī yíyì. [Pinyin]
- Nowadays officials use the pretext of “affected [by disease] and [symptoms have] manifested” for their absence; this is inherited from ganfengbu (sign-in book for officials who had been affected by the cold wind and fallen ill) in the Song dynasty.
按今制官员请假辄以感冒为辞,当即宋时「感风簿」之遗意。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
Verb
感冒
- to catch a cold
- (literary) to sense; to feel
- (Mainland China, figurative, colloquial, often in the negative) to fancy; to be interested in
- (Taiwan, figurative, colloquial) to loathe; to hate
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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感 | 冒 |
かん Grade: 3 |
ぼう Grade: S |
on’yomi |
References
- Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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