Definitions
weak, lame
Etymology
Pictograph of a person with deformed legs.
About
The character 尢 is a single-component ideogram depicting a person with a bent leg, conveying lameness or a lower-limb deformity. As a semantic radical, it forms the basis for characters related to physical weakness, disability, or bodily awkwardness. Though rarely used independently today, its core meaning underpins compound characters like 尴 and 尬, which extend the idea of physical impairment to metaphorical states of social or psychological discomfort.
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