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啄食

Mandarin · pinyin zhuó shí

(of a bird) to peck at food

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啄: zhuó · to peck; (Cant.) to slander
食: shí · eat; meal; food; Kangxi radical 184

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2–2 · zhuo2 shi2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

doek3 sik6

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

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