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| Processed by: | richwarm (2026-02-17 22:27:12 UTC) |
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<< review queue entry 85362 - submitted by 'becky82' >> I'm not sure precisely how to edit this entry (so I'll just make a comment); I think we should include a verb usage for 纹, meaning "to tattoo", as in 纹了个身 and 纹了朵花 and 纹眼线. I believe it can be thought of as an abbreviation of 纹刺. Examples "in the wild": - 不少欧美明星身上就纹着汉字，…… https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_8284515 - 他纹了这样一个中文纹身 https://www.guancha.cn/life/2017_11_07_433865.shtml - 傳統太魯閣族人童年時會在額頭紋上額紋 https://www.taiwan.nps.gov.tw/home/zh-tw/topic/18644.html - 我纹了一个纹身 https://k.sina.cn/article_3064350581_pb6a647750270141zs.html?cre=tianyi&mod=wpic&loc=4&r=0&rfunc=93&tj=cxvertical_wap_wpic&tr=12&wm=gwo%3Fp%2Cgwo%3Fp - 她觉得老这样不行，就拉着我带她去纹了个身 https://m.baidu.com/bh/m/detail/ar_6353318502418019243?frsrcid=rec So this makes me think we should append: .../to tattoo/abbr. for 紋刺 | 纹刺 But there's an issue: 纹 can also be written 文 (such as 纹身 vs. 文身), and I'm unsure which is preferred. I found one example of 文 being used like this online: - 14岁的她文了花臂 https://static.nfnews.com/content/202409/30/c10131790.html?enterColumnId=1206 Currently CC-CEDICT treats 文身 as the primary and 纹身 as an alternative. But I feel like 纹身 is more common nowadays. (I asked here https://chinese.stackexchange.com/q/63877/8099 so we'll see how that turns out.) -------------------- Editor: According to Outlier, the ancient form of 文 depicted a human body with linear, tattoo-like markings on it, and 紋 originally meant "decorative patterns sewn into silks", with the component 文 serving as both sound component and meaning component. Obviously other meanings developed later. The Stack Exchange responses you got seem very reasonable. Anyway, New Age includes the verb sense for 紋 in modern Chinese: "动 to tattoo" (adding a note that it's the same its sense #11 of 文) MoE also has the verb sense for 紋: (動) 刺染花紋圖案。如：「紋身」。 https://www.moedict.tw/%E7%B4%8B |
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- 紋 纹 [wen2] /line/trace/mark/pattern/grain (of wood etc)/ # + 紋 纹 [[wen2]] /line/trace/mark/pattern/grain (of wood etc)/ + 紋 纹 [[wen2]] /line; trace; mark; pattern; grain (of wood etc)/to tattoo/ |