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- Mandarin · semantic loan from要
- Hokkien · semantic loan from欲
- English todaywant to
Semantic loan from Hokkien 欲 (beh) or 愛 /爱 (ài) and later Mandarin 要 (yào).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
want to
Today it means: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see want, to. Full definition →
Hokkien 欲 ← Mandarin 要