verb #78,390

Meanings

  1. 1 (literary) hunchbacked; to bend the back

Examples

Yǔ lǚ tíxié, wǎnglái yú lù.
The hunched and the led-by-the-hand come and go on the road.

Tips

history
is not used alone in modern Chinese. It meant to stoop with a bent back and survives chiefly in the literary word (yǔlǚ, hunched over), known from Ouyang Xiu's writing about old folk on the road.
register
Literary; everyday Chinese uses 驼背 for hunchbacked.

Components

radical
rén
person
is the person radical, a left-side form of , since the word describes a person's bent posture.
phonetic
area; to bend
supplies the sound, drifting from to ; its enclosing shape also hints at a body curved over.

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