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乾巴巴

简 干巴巴 · 繁 乾巴巴
Mandarin · pinyin gān bā bā

Meanings

  1. dry
  2. parched
  3. dull
  4. insipid
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乾
qián · gān · dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
巴
bā · greatly desire, anxiously hope
干
gàn · oppose, offend; invade; dried
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1–1–1 · gan1 ba1 ba1

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

gon1 baa1 baa1

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gon1 baa1 baa1

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adj

  1. (ideophonic, of land, food, etc.) dry and hard; parched
  2. (ideophonic, of speech, writing, etc.) dull; boring; insipid

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