入席

Mandarin · pinyin rù xí

Meanings

  1. to take one's seat
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入
rù · enter, come in(to), join
席
xí · seat; mat; take seat; banquet
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4–2 · ru4 xi2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

jap6 zik6

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

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verb

  1. (literary) to take up one's seat (at a ceremony or banquet)

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