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喝

Mandarin · pinyin hē#

to drink
variant of 嗬 hē

Mandarin · pinyin hè#

to shout

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喝: hē · drink; shout, call out

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

hot3 · jit3

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

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character · Etymology 1

(Mandarin, Jin) to drink

character · Etymology 2

to shout; to call out
(Cantonese, transitive) to shout at someone
(Hokkien) to scold loudly
(Zhangzhou Hokkien, Teochew) to brag; to boast; to bluff

character · Etymology 3

(literary, of one's voice) hoarse

character · Etymology 4

(alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 嗬 (“hey”)

character · Etymology 5

(Quanzhou Hokkien) so

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