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利市
Mandarin · pinyin lì shì
Meanings
- business profit
- auspicious
- lucky
- small sum of money offered on festive days
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4–4 · li4 shi4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
lai6 si6 · lei6 si6
Cantonese word readings for 利市. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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lei6 si5
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
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noun
- profits
- (literary) good business; good market
- (dialectal) omen of good business
- (Cantonese, Hakka, Nanning Pinghua, Guangxi Mandarin, Teochew) red envelope; red packet; lai see (a monetary gift which is given during holidays or special occasions) (Classifier: 封)
adj
- (dialectal, chiefly Cantonese, Hakka) lucky
- (Zhangzhou Hokkien, of a business) prosperous
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