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㑳

简㑇 · 繁㑳

Mandarin · pinyin zhòu

(old) beautiful; clever

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㑇: zhòu · clever, ingenious; cute; pretty

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4 · zhou4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

cau1 · zau3

Cantonese word readings for 㑳. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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character

pretty; cute; clever
stubborn; cruel; ferocious; erratic
(rare) hired; employed
(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 媰 /㛀 (“pregnant”)
(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 謅 /诌 (“to make up (a story); to”)

character

only used in 偛㑳／偛㑇 (chāzhū)

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