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佃

Mandarin · pinyin diàn#

to rent farmland from a landlord

Mandarin · pinyin tián#

to cultivate
to hunt

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佃: diàn · tenant farmer; be a tenant farmer

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4 · dian4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

din6 · tin4

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

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(literary) to till; to cultivate
(literary) alternative form of 畋 (tián, “to hunt”)

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to rent and till land from a landlord
(obsolete) land rent
(dialectal) to rent
a surname

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