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塌

Mandarin · pinyin tā

to collapse
to droop
to settle down

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塌: tā · fall in ruins, collapse

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dap1 · taap3

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to collapse; to fall down; to cave in
to sink; to droop
to calm down; to settle down
(dialectal) to slump; to sink (of morale, etc.)
(Hokkien) to fill up; to fill in; to stuff (a gap, blank, vacancy, etc.)
(Hokkien) to stack or press close together crisscrossed
(Taiwanese Hokkien) to lose money
(Hokkien) to become sunken; to hollow; to form a depression

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