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徼

Mandarin · pinyin jiǎo#

by mere luck

Mandarin · pinyin jiào#

boundary
to go around

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徼: jiào · frontier, border; inspect, patrol

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3 · jiao3

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

giu1 · giu2 · giu3 · hiu1 · jiu1

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(literary) frontier; border
(literary) to inspect; to patrol
(archaic) small road; path
(archaic) to steal; to plagiarize
(literary) to request; to seek; to solicit
(archaic) to incur; to bring about
(archaic) to block; to obstruct; to interview
used in 徼倖／徼幸

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