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正面 3979.chin
英 [tʃɪn]美 [tʃɪn]

背面
释义:
n. 下巴;聊天;引体向上动作vt. 用下巴夹住;与…聊天;在单杠上作引体向上动作vi. 闲谈;作引体向上动作n. (Chin)人名;(泰)真;(柬)金;(越)九;(西)钦
例句:
1. He had long unkempt hair and a stubbly chin.他的头发又长又乱,脸上胡子拉碴。

1、trah- / tract- => trail.
chin 下巴来自PIE*genu, 下巴,词源同knee, genuflect, 基本义为弯,转。
chinchin: [OE] Chin has relatives throughout the Germanic languages (German has kinn, for instance, and Dutch kin) and is also represented in words for ‘lower jaw’, ‘mouth’, ‘cheek’, etc in other Indo-European languages (Greek gnáthos ‘jaw’, for example, which gave English prognathous ‘having projecting jaws’). All go back to a prehistoric Indo-European source *genw-.=> prognathouschin (n.)Old English cin, cinn "chin" (but in some compounds suggesting an older, broader sense of "jawbone"); a general Germanic word (compare Old Saxon and Old High German kinni; Old Norse kinn; German Kinn "chin;" Gothic kinnus "cheek"), from PIE root *genu- "chin, jawbone" (cognates: Sanskrit hanuh "jaw," Avestan zanu- "chin;" Armenian cnawt "jawbone, cheek;" Lithuanian žándas "jawbone;" Greek genus "chin, lower jaw," geneion "chin;" Old Irish gin "mouth," Welsh gen "jawbone, chin").chin (v.)1590s, "to press (affectionately) chin to chin," from chin (n.). Meaning "to bring to the chin" (of a fiddle) is from 1869. Slang meaning "talk, gossip" is from 1883, American English. Related: Chinned; chinning. Athletic sense of "raise one's chin over" (a raised bar, for exercise) is from 1880s."

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