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手足
Mandarin · pinyin shǒu zú
Meanings
- hands and feet
- (fig.) brothers
- retinue, henchmen, accomplices
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3–2 · shou3 zu2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
sau2 zuk1
Cantonese word readings for 手足. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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sau2 zuk1
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
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noun
- (literally) hands and feet
- (figurative, literary) parts of the same body; people who are inseparable or intimately connected
- (figurative) brothers; siblings
- (figurative) accomplices; retinue; henchmen
- (neologism, Hong Kong politics) fellow Hong Kong protestors
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