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Asia; second; Asian; inferior; next to; secondary; used as a prefix to names |
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Pictograph: probably a carpenter’s tool (compare 工); this word was used to denote excellence (perhaps because it was borrowed); later came to denote something secondary in excellence hence inferior |
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