𡲢

𡲢 (Kangxi radical 44, 尸+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 尸廿大口 (STKR), composition ⿸尸茄)

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 303, character 18
• Unihan data for U+21CA2

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声): semantic 尸 + phonetic 茄.

Origin uncertain.

Compare

• Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kləj (“excrement”): Chinese 屎 (OC *hliʔ), Tibetan ལྕི་བ (lci ba), Burmese ချေး (hkye:)
• Proto-Kra-Dai *taqiː C (“excrement”): Zhuang haex, Thai ขี้ (kîi), Lao ຂີ້ (khī), Southern Kam geex, Sui ggeex
• Proto-Austronesian *Caqi (“excrement”): Paiwan tsaqi, Malay tahi, Tagalog tae, Malagasy tay
• Proto-Hmong-Mien *N-KəjX (“excrement”): White Hmong quav, Iu Mien nqaiv.

Bauer (1996:1824) did not consider this to be a loan from Tai and pointed out that khV ("excrement") is quite widespread in Cantonese 𡲢 (ke¹), Tai (e.g. Thai ขี้ (kîi)) and Tibeto-Burman (e.g. Zaiwa kʰji²¹, Burmese ချေး (hkye:) and Lashi kʰjei⁵⁵) in focusing on modern lexical forms rather than protoforms. Paul Benedict criticized that the lexical forms Bauer had pulled together as the "same" word were really just "looklike" in Bauer (1996:1836). Bauer rebutted that it is highly unlikely that the phenomenon of simple coincidence explains the occurrence of so many phonosemantically similar (and identical) forms in so many different languages in Bauer (1996:1836).

𡲢

1. (Cantonese) alternative form of 茄 (“poop”)