埋土

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Chinese[edit]

to blame; bury
 
earth; dust; rural
earth; dust; rural; uncouth; uncultured; plebeian
simp. and trad.
(埋土)
Literally: “to bury in earth”.

Etymology[edit]

Alteration of 理工 due to superstitious connotations related to 工字不出頭工字不出头 (one cannot become successful in life by being a worker, literally the vertical stroke in the character does not poke above the first horizontal stroke). The 𤣩 and in 理工 are therefore replaced with , where the vertical stroke pokes above the first horizontal stroke.

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埋土

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, humorous) Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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