糞

糞 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 火木田廿金 (FDWTC), four-corner 9080₁, composition ⿱米異)

• 瀵 𥽤 𥽡 䆏

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 912, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27102
• Dae Jaweon: page 1339, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3158, character 7
• Unihan data for U+7CDE

Historical forms of the character 糞
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Oracle bone: pictogram (象形) : 3 dots + 𠀠 + 廾 + optional 帚 (zhǒu).

Small seal: pictogram (象形) : 釆 + 𠦒 + 廾.

The current glyph is from the small seal script.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *brun (“excrement”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan བྲུན (brun, “dung”).

糞

1. excrement; faeces; dung
2. manure
3. (literary, or in compounds) to apply manure to
4. (literary, or in compounds) to clear away

• (excrement):

• (to apply manure to):

• 米田共 (mǐtiángòng)

• → Vietnamese: phân

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A03073
• “糞”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

• Go-on: ふん (fun)
• Kan-on: ふん (fun)
• Kun: くそ (kuso, 糞)、ばば (baba, 糞)

From Old Japanese,^[1] in turn from Proto-Japonic *kuso.

Cognate with 臭い (kusai, “stinky, smelly”), 腐る (kusaru, “to rot, to become stinky”).^[1]

• (Tokyo) くそ [kùsóꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [kɯ̟̊so̞]

糞(くそ) • (kuso) 

1. (colloquial) feces, excrement
2. (by extension) shit, crap, garbage, trash

   このノートパソコンはクソだ！

   Kono nōto pasokon wa kuso da!

   This laptop is shit!

• 糞(くそ)の役(やく)にも立(た)たぬ (kuso no yaku ni mo tatanu, “not even good for shit”); see also 役(やく)に立(た)つ (yaku ni tatsu, “to be useful, to play a role”)

糞(くそ) • (kuso) 

1. (often vulgar) shit, crap

   クソ！玄(げん)関(かん)の鍵(かぎ)をかけ忘(わす)れた！

   Kuso! Genkan no kagi o kake-wasureta!

   Shit! I forgot to lock the front door!

• This is not considered as profane as the English glosses. For instance, a child of five using the Japanese interjection kuso would be unremarkable, whereas it would be very socially inappropriate for a child of five to use the English interjection shit.

糞(くそ) • (kuso-) 

1. (derogatory) pejorative prefix

   糞(くそ)爺(じじ)い

   kusojijī

   damn geezer

糞(くそ) • (-kuso) 

1. crappy, for shit: a derogatory emphasizing suffix.

   下手(へた)糞(くそ)

   hetakuso

   crappy (bad at something), to be shit at doing something

   襤褸(ぼろ)糞(くそ)

   borokuso

   broken down for shit, raggedy-ass

/pun/ → /fun/

From Middle Chinese 糞 (MC pjunH).

• (Tokyo) ふん [fúꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[2][3]
• IPA^(key): [ɸɯ̟̃ɴ]

糞(ふん) or 糞(フン) • (fun) 

1. droppings, dung

   ふれあい動(どう)物(ぶつ)園(えん)のモルモットが受(う)けるストレスを糞(ふん)中(ちゅう)コルチコステロンによって推(すい)定(てい)する試(こころ)み

   fureai dōbutsuen no morumotto ga ukeru sutoresu o funchū koruchikosuteron ni yotte suitei suru kokoromi

   Non-invasive monitoring of stress via fecal corticosterone levels in guinea pigs on public display

• This noun specifically refers to the excrement of non-human animals; for human excrement, the term 大便 (daiben) is used.
• This term may be spelled as フン due to the complexity of the kanji 糞.

Appears to derive from baby talk.^[1][2] Compare English poopoo and Mandarin 㞎㞎 (bǎba).

• (Tokyo) ばば [bàbá] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
• (Tokyo) ばば [bàbáꜜ] (Odaka – [2])^[2]
• IPA^(key): [ba̠ba̠]

糞(ばば) • (baba) 

1. (childish) poopoo, poop, dookie
2. (childish) something unclean

• ばばっちい (babatchii, “dirty”, childish, literally “poopy”)
• ばっちい (batchii, “dirty”, childish, literally “poopy”)
• 猫(ねこ)糞(ばば) (nekobaba, literally “cat-poopoo”)

糞 (eumhun 똥 분 (ttong bun))

1. hanja form^? of 분 (“dung”)

糞: Hán Nôm readings: phẩn, phân

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