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尻

Mandarin · pinyin kāo

(literary) buttocks; rump; coccyx; sacrum

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尻: kāo · end of spine; buttocks, sacrum

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

haau1 · hou1

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

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character · Etymology 1

(literary) end of spine; tailbone (coccyx) or sacrum
(literary) buttocks; rump
(obsolete) anus
(dialectal Mandarin) to fuck

character · Etymology 2

(Taiwanese Mandarin, colloquial) to masturbate; to jerk off

character · Etymology 3

(Cantonese, vulgar) alternative form of 鳩 /鸠 (gau¹)

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