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剝
简 剥 · 繁 剝Characters in this entry
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1 · bao1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
bok1 · mok1 · pok3
Cantonese word readings for 剝. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- (Classical) to cut apart, split
- to peel; to skin; to shell
- (of skin, paint, etc.) to fall off; to erode; to come off
- (Cantonese, Hakka, Zhongshan Min) to take off (clothes)
- (Hokkien) to take off; to remove; to take down (something attached to something else)
- (Classical) exposed, without cover; naked
- (now in compounds) to strip; to deprive; to exploit — (Hokkien) to snatch; to take away by force; to rob; to mug
- (now in compounds) to strip; to deprive; to exploit — (Classical, government) to strip someone of (a position) i.e. to fire someone
- (now in compounds) to strip; to deprive; to exploit — (figurative) to rip off, plagiarize
- twenty-third hexagram "Splitting Apart" of the I Ching, represented by the symbol ䷖
- (Classical) to decline, diminish
- Used in onomatopoeias.
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