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乜

Mandarin · pinyin miē#

used in 乜斜 miē xie
(Cantonese) what?

Mandarin · pinyin Niè#

surname Nie

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乜: miē · to squint; (Cant.) what? huh?

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

mat1 · me1 · me2 · me5 · me6 · ne6

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character · Etymology 1

(Cantonese, Southern Min) what
(Cantonese) anything; everything
(Cantonese) why; how come
(Cantonese) Used at the beginning of a question to give a rhetorical effect.

character · Etymology 2

to narrow one's eyes and squint

character · Etymology 3

a surname, listed 388th in the Baijiaxing

character · Etymology 4

(dialectal Mandarin) that

character · Etymology 5

(Hakka) also

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